Not tinge dizzying heights of Snatch but in a clear attempt to regain that level of quality this film is in its own right impressively good. Again stylish and brisk the cast are equally as charming as the 2000 film although the comedy/dramatic mix isn't as well balanced this film is still quite good

Style over substance, disjointed rubbish, the direction was both shallow and yet again with Ritchie clichéd. Lock stock, refreshing, snatch, funny yet predictable, the only saving grace on this one were the acting performances, which the Director possibly could have ended a few careers with this shambles. Hats off the actors, Ritchie, well look in the mirror, I'll leave it there before I become abusive!!

One of the few films that. I have ever given up on. My wife and I got 40 minutes in, and decided it wasn't interesting, funny, clever or charming. The only skill we could discern, was that of making so many talented actors act so incredibly poorly. The script sounded like it was written by a clever teenager; naive and heavy handed without any of the subtlety that experience would bring.

I'll give Guy Ritchie some credit and I'm prepared to accept that this is certainly a handsome and stylish looking film, and, to an extent is also fairly well put together. However, that's probably about the best I can say for it to be honest...The set-up for the story opens with promise and as expected we're bearing witness to a twisting, turning narrative complete with one or two surprises to follow later in the film. Despite the promising set-up though it's actually surprising how uninvolving this film is as a whole. Essentially it's a rather humourless tale complete with rather shallow characters who share little rapport or chemistry. I think a combination of flat characterisation and a pedestrian script are perhaps the biggest contributors to this film being a bit of a snore-fest. Whilst Ritchie weaves all the strands of the story together well he does occasionally get side-tracked with pointless and dumb plot elements (such as the two junkies flogging items and Tom Hardy's character being gay). The slapping scene is another example of a moderately amusing gag being stretched rather thin and again seemed to add unnecessary running time to the picture. I couldn't help but feel that this is another 90 minute film that's been painfully stretched to nearly 120 minutes which perhaps explains why I found large parts of the film to be rather boring.Looking at RockNRolla in 2016 it's interesting to see the likes of Tom Hardy and Idris Elba before they hit the big time and whilst Tom Hardy was actually very good here sadly Idris Elba didn't make the same impact - although I'd put more of the blame on Guy Ritchie for underusing Elba and giving him nothing to do. Tom Wilkinson is good fun as mob boss Lenny Cole but he gives a rather hammy performance which wears thin and stops becoming fun by the time we reach the second half of the picture. Mark Strong is solid as Cole's loyal right-hand man and Toby Kebbell is also amusing here but isn't really given enough screen time to make the necessary impact.Having enjoyed both Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch I did have high hopes for RockNRolla and expected more of the same, and whilst Guy Ritchie admirably weaves all the strands of the story together well he does it all in a rather humourless and dull manner making this film something of a yawner.