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In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, naturally attraction the attention of some of the city's scrappiest tough guys (Butler, Elba) its more established underworld players (Wilkinson), and others -- all of whom are looking to get rich quick.
Gerard Butler: One Two
RocknRolla is pretty much Guy Ritchie showing us all that he hasn't lost it. Let's face it, with Revolver he was trying to be clever but it went abit wrong. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels & Snatch are at the level of top form, what we, the audiences want from Director Guy Ritchie.
At the start of his career Guy Ritchie was compared to legend Tarantino. This isn't necessarily a good person for him to be compared to.
Whereas Tarantino can write great plots and fantastic arrays and splashings of dialogue. Ritchie is usually quite poor at plots, but good at putting witty gritty words into people's speech. Here there are too many double crosses and back handed deals, the plot sometimes lingers. When Ritchie learns that this doesn't always work and simplifies the equation, he really will be a great writer & director. At least though it isn't as bad as Revolver was when it came out.
Thankfully RocknRolla is him back in control and back into the swing of what Guy does best.
One thing that's instantly improved to his Revolver piece is the fact that he's got a flawless casting this time, a plot that is untouchable as is the script and a killer Soundtrack that had me bobbing my head in rhythm to it, yes it was that bloody amazing!
May I say Mark Strong as Archie, had to be one of my favourite characters besides Gerard Butler in RocknRolla. I mean this Actor seems to have something cheeky about him that always produces a wry smile with me. Whether it be Stardust or even him in Revolver, he was the best thing in that film, Mark Strong makes Archie a hard guy yet one with a certain dark humour.
Gerard Butler as One Two is such a fun character who has his fair share of experiences in the movie.
Thandie Newton is sexy as hell, never stops smoking and never stops looking beautiful, seductive and icily intelligent.
There's a dance scene between Thandie & Gerard that's one of the coolest segments within the film, using Graphic Novel-esque subtitles as they talk and dance, pure genius.
Tom Wilkinson plays Lenny Cole, the bad ass boss, who really can play a Mob Boss well, whereas Batman Begins he's an American one, RocknRolla shows a pure grime London man who's a bad man.
If your sense of humour is warped and dark like mine, you will love what's on offer in RocknRolla. Homosexuality, the Rock industry, Russian dealings, and crafty back stabbing between deals gone sour are all explored. A certain scene in which Archie finds two Russians, doing some very strange things to Gerard is so funny as are a number of other surprisingly effective scenes.
Look out for Sweeney Todd's Jamie Campbell Bower popping up in the middle as a Rocker. As well as Ludacris, Jeremy Piven and Idris Elba.
Overall RocknRolla has rekindled my faith in Guy Ritchie and even Madonna must be breathing a sigh of relief. It's class, it's violent, it's funny and more importantly it's dark, rich and satisfying.
Roll on The Real RocknRolla!
8/10
