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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2182
Released: January 27, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
“I own this town.” But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Piven and Chris Bridges), a missing painting and a mad mosh of money and muscle, and youve got this funny, smash-mouth smackdown of sexthugs&rocknroll from writer/director Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch).
Description of RocknRolla (Single-Disc Edition):
Writer/director Guy Ritchie bounces back from the subpar Revolver with RocknRolla, proof that all rapidly edited, tough-talking, plot-twisting gangster movies are not the same. Two low-level hoods (Gerard Butler of 300 and Idris Elba from The Wire) try to get into real estate, only to run afoul of a much bigger crook (Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton)--who, thanks to the machinations of a bored accountant (Thandie Newton, Crash), runs afoul of some very nasty Russian mobsters. But at the center of this web is drug-addled punk rocker (Toby Kebbell, Control), who unexpectedly proves to be just as adept at violence, scheming, and smartass quips as anyone else. Everyone seems to be having an infectiously good time; the convoluted plot holds together just enough to keep the action flowing smoothly, though when it's over you'll be hard-pressed to explain how one event led to another. What's most curious about the movie is how Ritchie is completely uninterested in women, even as sex objects. RocknRolla features what must be the most perfunctory heterosexual sex scene in movie history, while lavishing attention on muscular chests, tough mugs, and manly banter. RocknRolla is candy entertainment, fun and fizzy while it unfolds, disposable the moment it's over. There's nothing wrong with that; if all pop cinema was this energetic and cheerful, we'd be living in a much more entertaining world. --Bret Fetzer
RocknRolla (Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
Spirit is back 
2009-10-27 - After a disappointment like revolver, the spirit of lock, stock and...is back
in this buddy movie with lots of good actors.
But we're still far away from the sharp sense of humor of Snatch!
Quality of the bluray is good but not exceptionnel.
A shot to the funny bone! 
2009-10-27 - This movie is HILARIOUS- full of sophisticated humor. It's like The Godfather without Don Corleone and none of his family drama. Just a funny gangster flick, but not too over the top.
A series of misfortunes ...
2009-10-23 - "RocknRolla" is a British crime drama directed by Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels). The film is a about a British crime boss named Lenny Cole (Wilkinson) who is involved in the real estate market. When a wealthy Russian real estate tycoon, and crime figure, Yuri Omovich (Karel Roden) comes looking for Lenny to help in a major new deal things start to unravel.
Yuri asks his accountant, Stella (Thandie Newton), to transfer some money to Lenny. Unbeknown to Yuri, Stella mentions the drop off point for the money to a band of thieves, consisting of One Two, and Mumbles (Gerard Butler and Idris). They intercept and steal the money. Also, Yuri has lent his good luck painting to Lenny, but then someone else steals the picture, which Yuri then asks to have returned since he feels his luck has changed since lending it to Lenny. Yuri gets another 7,000,000 for Lenny, but then that too is stolen.
In this world of crime there are the scavengers that take and pillage whatever they can at whatever opportunity becomes available. And through a series of unforeseen events these crime bigwigs start to belief that the other is screwing with them. Lenny thinks Yuri is balking at paying the agreed sum of money, and Yuri, after asking for his lucky painting back and getting excuses from Lenny about why he hasn't returned it, believes Lenny is also screwing with him. All the while behind the scenes there are these weasels, and riff-raff who are screwing with them. In a continually amusing series of mishaps and events the sordid underbelly of the real estate world is turned upside down. This film isn't as brisk as "Lock, Stock and Two barrels", but it is highly entertaining nonetheless.
A MUST SEE 
2009-10-05 - This was a clever picture. It had exceptionally strong characters and the actors that played them portrayed them perfectly. Guy Richie has a knack about getting a stella cast for his pictures and he definitely did it in this one. There were no horrible performance's in this picture. There are no dragging scenes, its all constant, fast paced as you follow two different plots in story simultaneously that meet up at the end, which is kind of a who done it.
For some reason when Guy Richie comes out with a new movie I always think its going to stink. Every time I am amazed at how good it is. Guy Richie in my eyes is the next Tarantino, I think even better. He is creating the standard for the "New Age Gangster Film". It doesn't have to be violent and bloody to be a great movie and he proves this time and time again.
This in my eyes is a must see. Even if this is not your so called genre, still see it, you will be surprised as well as pleased.
Great Movie!
2009-09-28 - Whew!!! Just when I had lost faith in My Ritchie, this came along, and it is very good.
(A fitting atonement for the extremely bad Revolver...)
Greard Butler and Thandie Newton give great performances
