Product Details

• Actors: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong
• Directors: Guy Ritchie
• Writers: Guy Ritchie
• Producers: Guy Ritchie, Joel Silver, Lauren Meek, Martin Askew, Mickey De Hara
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Run Time: 114 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001M4YZ90
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,721 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
“I own this town.” But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Piven and Chris Bridges), a missing painting and a mad mosh of money and muscle, and youve got this funny, smash-mouth smackdown of sexthugs&rocknroll from writer/director Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch).

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unorthodox, Gritty, Darkly Funny, Fast-Paced, Easy To Follow Because Of Narrations!, March 22, 2009

By	MUZIK4THAPEOPLE!! (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews

I find that Guy Ritchie's work inspires deep
feelings of love or hate!
There is no middleground among people when
it comes to him. Some see him as a ridiculous wanna-be
Scorcesse or DePalma, others see him as a fresh new voice
and vision in cinema for the 21st Century.
I enjoyed this movie and all it's rawness, dark humor,
violence and rollercoaster twists and turns!
Gerard Butler, Idris Elba & their motley crew of low dollar
thugs with ambitions for the bigtime made this movie for me!
Their interplay was priceless against the story's other very
interesting characters. I also love the cracked-out,
devil-may-care, balls-to-the-wall portrayal of the ROCK-N-ROLLA
himself, Johnny Quid, who is one of the main bad guy's stepson
who this whole crazy ride revolves around!--He is a hoot!

Jeremy Piven & Chris "Ludacris" Bridges play his smarmy
record company moguls who get tangled up in this wild web as well!
I don't care what anyone says!---I thought this was brilliant!
Now to prove my point of how Guy Ritchie's work polarizes people...
My mother, who watched this movie with me,
ABSOLUTELY THOUGHT IT WAS TRASH!!
You have to decide this one for yourself...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining But Not His Best, March 15, 2009

By	Tsuyoshi - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Many hail "Rocknrolla" as the comeback of Guy Ritchie. It is true that the director of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch," impressive one-two punch in 1998 and 2000, feels more comfortable in this UK gangster film territory. He is more assured as director than in dreadful "Swept Away" and "Revolver." Still, I must add that for all some of its entertaining scenes and largely fine acting, "Rocknrolla" doesn&t offer anything new to us.

Perhaps it is pointless to describe the story of Guy Ritchie's latest film "Rocknrolla." Conventional storytelling is not Guy Ritchie's forte. But anyway, there is a story and that is about a lucrative London real estate deal and the British/Russian gangsters trying to outwit the others. Enter a femme fatale-like accountant, plus a missing drug-addicted rock star with a subplot about good luck painting. Frankly, I couldn't exactly follow the opening sequence where the major characters are introduced, but anyway I could catch up with it by and by.

For his newest film, Guy Ritchie stopped using his once trademark hyperkinetic direction. It works in several scenes, for example, one "gentle" robbery by a small-time criminal "One Two" played by Gerald Butler, or the long "chase" scene involving his character and the Russian mobsters. Tom Wilkinson (hardly recognizable) is effective as the kingpin Lenny Cole and Mark Strong is fantastic as Archie his faithful right-hand man. In fact, they (and Toby Kebbell as Johnny Quid) are more impressive than Gerald Butler though Butler's acting is very good.

"Rocknrolla" is Guy Ritchie's return to form, but is still a disappointment to me. It is entertaining and it is great to see the actors having fun making this film. but the film lacks something original.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not His Best Work, February 22, 2009

By	Robert Tarantino "TSSINTMovie" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RocknRolla (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Let me say that I liked Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and loved Snatch. However, this movie leaned more into a light action/very light comedy mode. It had a very slow pace, I don't really recall any real laughs or tense moments. Just a director telling us all a story.

The picture and audio was fine, not that it mattered.

However, I think I was expecting more of a dark comedy. There was no Turkish, no Bullet-tooth Tony, just some people screwing each other.

I didn't give it a low score, because it wasn't bad, it's just I didn't really care what happened to any of the characters.

My suggestion is to definitely rent it first. If you like the genre, I'd suggest the two aforementioned movies or maybe Layer Cake.