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.

Variety by Joe Leydon

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!

New York Post by Kyle Smith

A sharp comedy as well as a punk-pulp spree. Don't go if you can't handle Brit slang. ("Grass" = informer.)

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The bottom line is, all these people chase the same money around with the success of doggie tail-biting, and it's a lot of fun, and it's not often in these con films that everybody is conning everybody, and they're all scared to death, and nobody knows which cup the pea is under.

Premiere by Jenni Miller

Though the plot has a few too many holes in it, the sheer fun of RockNRolla makes it easy to overlook such quibbles. Butler will make you forget all about "Sparta."

Miami Herald by René Rodríguez

Although the characters are all cartoons, Ritchie still invests them with enough personality to make them stand out as real people, which is what makes RocknRolla much more involving than your typical Tarantino ripoff.

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.

Film Threat by Mark Bell

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.

Time by Richard Corliss

The main problem is that Ritchie keeps playing the same old song. It's a swell tune, and we don't mind hearing it every few years, but we'd welcome another subject in a transposed key. Even the Material Girl tries out fresh material.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

As is the norm for Ritchie, Rocknrolla is also too long, too coolly violent, and too populated by characters who all talk like they've been reading the same pulp novelist.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.

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.

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.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

As punchy and energetic as the first few moments are, the rest of the film quickly falls back into mediocrity.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

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.

Village Voice

Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.