RocknRolla

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie heads back to the London underworld for this hyperkinetic crime comedy concerning a shady land deal that leaves every schemer in the city determined to get rich or die trying. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a lucrative real estate scam, ...more

RocknRolla is a terminally cool movie. So cool, in fact, that it doesn’t let the audience get close to its slick cast of characters, the homecoming kings of the gangster world. Viewers are kept at arm's length, with a gun pointed squarely in their face as they try to decipher how convoluted plot lines intersect and why they should care about a motley crue of callous men. If crooks like One Two (Gerard Butler), Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson), and Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy) are roost-ruling fraternity ...more

Nearly a decade after proving that lightning could indeed strike twice with Snatch -- his giddy, reputation-cementing follow-up to the landmark Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -- it would seem that Guy Ritchie is finally starting to grow up. Sure, he's still got a good pint of piss in him, but in the wake of such box-office disasters as Swept Away and Revolver, he seems to finally understand that sometimes it pays to exercise a bit of restraint. In the past, the frantic, highly stylized ...more