Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.
RocknRolla
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United Kingdom, United States, France · 2008
Rated R · 1h 54m
Director Guy Ritchie
Starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
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Lenny Cole, a powerful London gangster, enters into a crooked deal with a rich Russian named Uri. However, the money involved becomes a target for a variety of figures in London's underworld, including crooks One-Two and Mumbles, Uri's deceptive accountant Stella, and Lenny's party boy stepson Johnny.
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What are critics saying?
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
On the plus side, the actors - especially Butler and Wilkinson - work overtime to pump some extra life into the self-conscious script.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
As punchy and energetic as the first few moments are, the rest of the film quickly falls back into mediocrity.
A cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious seriocomic caper.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk 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!
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Ritchie concocts a crime-jungle demimonde that's organically linked to the real world, and it's a damn fun one to visit.
Rolling Stone by Peter 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.
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