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RocknRollaEntry #633024
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RocknRolla (Single-Disc Edition)
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We were ecstatic to see that Guy Ritchie had made another movie. Finally! We both absolutely love Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. We hoped that this new movie, eight years after the release of Snatch, would live up to those two. (We were also happy to see that he was no longer shackled to that life-sucking hag, Madonna. Hopefully his creativity is back now that she and her crazy house rules are no longer draining the life out of him.)

But I digress. RocknRolla started out a bit slower than I would have liked. I was expecting the driving soundtrack and quick pacing of the first two, but, as George pointed out, this latest effort is a bit more cerebral than those, more mature. It did pick up in the middle, however, with a chase scene with a couple of apparently indestructible Russians that reminded me of the others. The key to Ritchie movies is a convoluted plot filled with bumbling two-bit crooks who can't seem to get out of their own way, but come out on top in the end, due entirely to dumb luck. This one does follow suite, if not in quite the same style as the earlier ones.

There is also a bit of a monologue just a bit past the middle by a junkie playing a piano. It's quite an eloquent existential exposition on the nature of life using a pack of cigarettes as a metaphor. These bright, shiny bits of dialogue are something of a trademark of Ritchie films.

On the whole, I would say that Guy Ritchie is definitely back. We both look forward to his next one!

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