Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.
80
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
It's all here: the ingenious, obscenity-laced language, the double crosses that turn into triple crosses, the swaggering characters so in love with themselves. GottaLove RocknRolla!
80
VarietyJoe Leydon
VarietyJoe Leydon
A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.
70
Film Threat
Film Threat
If you're a fan of the early Ritchie comedy-crime thrillers, then this is not only right up your alley, it's a long lost relative returning home.
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Rolling StonePeter Travers
RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.
Thinking back on watching these performers, I see them mostly as an arrangement of bewildered actors awaiting orders, as if Ritchie hasn't bothered to tell them what he needs them to do. He’d sure make a lousy Mob boss.
10
Village Voice
Village Voice
Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.