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(1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1   4/5 "Decidedly darker than previous Ritchie offerings, Rocknrolla struts and preens like a chuffed chart-topper with a debilitating drug habit should."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "RocknRolla is an invigorating, grimly hilarious return to old Ritchie sensibilities, the director mounting a slingshot crime saga with more gravitas and hangdog heroics than previously seen."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C "For all of its cool '60s garage rock and Clash song soundtrack, writer/director Guy Ritchie's latest ode to John Mackenzie "The Long Good Friday" (1979) is a discombobulated and sluggish succession of action set pieces with vaguely interesting characters."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As a gangster named One Two, Gerard Butler is suitably rough around all his edges."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/4 "...the film is often very entertaining and consistently engaging..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "You'd think that being married to Madonna, Guy Ritchie would have picked up on the value of occasionally reinventing oneself."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D "All posturing and artifice -- not cool or funny, though sometimes scary in its nihilism and flippancy."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "There's lots of sizzle...but in the end very little to chew on."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "RocknRolla often feels more like a parody of a Guy Ritchie film than a real movie."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/5 "Stylish, edgy British crime caper for grown-ups."   Common Sense   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy C+ "The ensemble cast of his latest is so massive, they can't all be done justice and by the time the story's come to a close it's a bit of an untidy mess, even if all the pieces, technically, have been accounted for."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/5 "The hard-man hijinks are straight from the "mockney" gangster playbook (which, to be fair, Ritchie pretty much wrote) and the whole shebang is faux from start to finish, a middle-class fantasy of thug life. But RocknRolla is so relentlessly kinetic"   Film Journal International   Maitland McDonagh "I'd call it all a parody of cinematic male aggression, except I think it's a parody of a parody of cinematic male aggression..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "Alas, Guy Ritchie seems to have lost even what little touch he once had, his latest a typically convoluted saga about strangely named big- and little-time crooks that's fatally deficient in verve."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "It doesn't offer viewers anything more than the sight of a talented director treading water with a story he seems to have little interest in telling."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "The style and energy, plus the terrifically memorable characters, make it mindlessly good fun."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "A very slick, sophisticated plot with some well-written characters."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B ""RocknRolla" is fun, ridden with dark humor mixed with violence [but] its near two-hour run time should have been more like 90 minutes."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 4/5 "Guy Ritchie's most jolting, confusing, stimulating and flat-out entertaining picture since Snatch"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "It's like a lumpy, overworked, useless 'objet' that someone who doesn't know you very well might give you as a gift, a thing that sits around the house serving no unearthly purpose other than reminding you, none too subtly, that it's completely hollow."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "Narrated like a darkly frenetic graphic comic, this is a very, very British film - meaning many mobsters spurt undeceipherable Cockney and the often idiotic street thugs indulge in brutal, even surreal villainy."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger "Click here to see reviews"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 24) of 24 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1