Friday
31Oct2008
Movie Review - 'Rocknrolla'
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 12:04AM | Rocknrolla
Starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, and Mark Strong  |
It has been a long time since
Guy Ritchie
made a film worth talking about, or at least, one worth talking about
positively. His career began with a sonic boom: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels and Snatch. are two of the great crime comedies of their
generation.But it was all downhill after that, with a tragic re-reading of Swept Away with his now-estranged wife, Madonna, which was until earlier this year, the worst film I'd seen as a critic. That was followed three years later by a confused flick called Revolver, which had more people in its cast than in its audience. Neither one of those films followed the director's tried and true formula, and whether or not the decision to return to what he knows best was conscious or not, RocknRolla is a return to form for Ritchie, in more ways than one.
Yes, it’s a very cool movie, loaded with strange and hilarious characters. Ritchie’s writing has found its mark again and Rocknrolla definitely looks, sounds, and feels like one of his. The downside is that Rocknrolla looks, sounds, and feels just like both of his. It’s Snatch 2.0 or Lock, Stock III, with an assortment of dumb criminals being consumed by greed. There’s quick editing, quicker dialogue, and the quickest trigger fingers of the year.
It's one of those situations where all the characters have to keep digging, even though the only thing they ever find is more dirt. But they're already in it this far...
Rocknrolla is an absolute blast. No other director can come close to replicating this cocky, bluesy, ADD type of crime movie, but what does it say about Guy Ritchie that it’s apparently the only thing he can do well?
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Gerard Butler, Guy Ritchie, Reviews, RocknRolla | Print Article | Email Article | 1 Comment | Share Article
Reader Comments (1)
Yes 4 damn dirty apes, GUY RITCHIE still has it.
I was going to see it no matter what though