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The RocknRolla-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r2vf7 -----------------------------------------Lenny Cole, a London mob boss, puts the bite on all local real estate transactions. For substantial fees, he's helping Uri Omovich, a Russian developer. As a sign of good faith, Omovich loans Cole a valuable painting, promptly stolen off Cole's wall. While Cole's men, led by the dependable Archie, look for the canvas, three local petty criminals, the Wild Bunch, steal money from the Russian using inside information from his accountant, the lovely Stella. Meanwhile, a local drug-addled rocker, Johnny Quid, is reported drowned, and his connection to Cole is the key to unraveling the deceits and double crosses of life in the underworld.In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged-out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but very much alive -- has a multi-million-dollar prize fall into his hands.Guy Ritchie burst onto the scene with the fast-paced and amazingly brilliant LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, followed by the equally impressive SNATCH. Both films rank highly in my Top 20, and for that reason I absolutely adored, admired, and praised Guy Ritchie. Then came Madonna. And she ruined everything. Guy Ritchie was never the same after the marriage, directing the monstrosity that was SWEPT AWAY (with Madonna in the lead role, no less), followed by the garbled mess that was REVOLVER. ROCKNROLLA is supposed to represent Ritchie's return to his roots following the high-profile divorce, but it feels more forced and contrived than free-flowing and natural. Too much of the script feels borrowed and clichéd. It just doesn't live up to the promise of the first 10 minutes or so.
Nonetheless, it is a step in the right direction, and is something to build on. There was simply too much focus on the uninteresting sub-characters. The sub-characters in LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS and SNATCH. were at least interesting and captivating, and invoked a genuine cause for concern. That is not the case here. There is just not enough screen-time for Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, or the stunning Thandie Newton. Rocknrolla himself is not well-developed, save for a few scenes mildly reminiscent of the style of the Guy Ritchie of old.
Again, the movie seems unnatural and forced. The ending is unsatisfactory and there is no real catharsis a movie like this may warrant. It's nowhere near as brilliant as his first two. But it's nowhere near as sickening as his previous two. 7/10 is quite generous, but I remain optimistic about what the future holds for Ritchie, now that he has gotten rid of the old (the very old) ball-and-chain. 2.5 stars. May appear on my Honourable Mention list. Maybe not. Hopefully, in the absence of Madonna, Ritchie can use this film as a stepping stone in the right direction. Rumours of a sequel cause me to salivate...but not much...Okay, so it's been a while since Guy Ritchie made Revolver, which really was a poor film on many levels. So, one would have thought Ritchie would have taken the feedback received for that film, and channelled the criticism into making something that might equal, if not top Lock Stock, or Snatch. What he has come up with is something that offers very little humour matched by a convoluted storyline, with weak characters.
This monumental failure can best be characterised by Ritchie's choice of Tom Wilkinson as the head London gangster. In the past, when Ritchie watchers have been treated by the likes of Lenny McLean and Alan Ford, Wilkinson pales in comparison, due to his inability to master the cockney accent, and the overall weakness given to his character from the writing. The overall feeling in Lock Stock and Snatch was that the bad guys had the power, and were scary, whereas RockNRolla displays that the bad guys are pussies, and can be messed about with little consequence.
Some performances in this film help bring it up slightly - Mark Strong and Toby Kebbell are both brilliant in their own way, and fit their characters uncannily, saving the casting director any further blushes.
The storyline, as would be expected in most Ritchie gangster films, is complicated, with the difference this time being that it was unnecessarily complicated. Snatch and Lock, Stock needed certain characters and particular situations to act as catalysts for the next section of the film to take place. It seems that with RockNRolla, most of it was added to make the ensemble cast appear larger than it needed to be.
The worst thing about this film, though, is the severe lack of any humour at all. When compared with the biting scripts of his previous work, Ritchie can only be criticised for his dearth of imagination. He seems to have lost his spark for creative and witty dialogue contained in humorous situations.
Overall, I probably will not watch this film again, for a very long time. It's disappointments heavily outweigh its plus points. Whilst it is shot in a creative way, and the script, characters and storyline smack of Ritchie-isms, I could not help but get the impression it was Ritchie mimicking himself, rather than coming up with another brilliant film. He appears to have forgotten what made him great in the first place, and has taken a formula, added nothing, and has expected people to come flocking back - a big mistake.Like the filmmaking itself, the violence has no passion, no oomph, no sense of real or even feigned purpose.The script for RocknRolla was written by English film director and screenwriter Guy Ritchie. People ask the question what's a RocknRolla? And I'll tell 'em it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. there's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, others the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the fucking lot. –Archy (Mark Strong) As Archy tells Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell): "It cost a very wealthy Russian an arm and a leg (implying Uri)". Tank (Nonso Anozie) meets Archy at Lenny (Tom Wilkinson)'s office and tells him, "I have a bit of news about your painting". Cut to a scene of Lenny interrogating two men. Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy) met Stella's husband at her party and he agreed to go out with him if he could get Bob the file. In another scene Bob, is on the phone with Stella's husband and he tells Bob where to pick up the file. He and Mumbles (Idris Elba) pick it up, call One Two (Gerard Butler) and arrange to meet at his place where Archy is waiting. Tank calls him and tells him "first I find your painting, now I find out who's been taking Lenny's money". In the scene after Lenny shoots Johnny, Archy takes the file from Bob and reads from it. He tells Lenny, "but I've seen this name many times over the last 20 years and I always wondered...", and then it goes to a flashback of Archy in Lenny's office looking at a piece of paper and asking, "...who is this Sydney Shaw, Len?" Lenny snatches the paper away from him and tells him, "nothing to do with you". It's obvious Sydney Shaw was Lenny's alias and Archy being so close to Lenny knew he used that name. When Archy goes to pick up Lenny's two million from the Spealer, he says in his narration, "the Wild Bunch have had to put a little extra money on top to ignite Lenny's contacts and maybe, just maybe, Lenny's magic wand can make Bob's legal paperwork mysteriously disappear". Cut to the scene where Bob surprises One Two at Spealer, Archy calls him and tells him, "someone lose a bit of paperwork did they, One Two? Yeah well next time you remember that's exactly why you pay Lenny, understood?" "Rock and Roll Queen" by The Subways. The song used in the later trailer is "I'm a Man" by Black Strobe. Archy says, "You'll never sing the same if your teeth ain't your own." Possibly. At the end of the film, there is a title card stating, "Johnny, Archy and the Wild Bunch will be back in The Real RocknRolla", and Thandie Newton (Stella) has been quoted in MTV Movies Blog as saying, "RocknRolla is one of three films and Guy's keen to get going on that straightaway." The working title for the third movie is Rocknrolla Suicide and, according to Ritchie, would bring the characters to America. It is implied that they are both killed. Stella is probably killed by Uri's assistant Victor after Uri see that she has his painting. Her death isn't shown on screen, but is implied when Victor asks for his gloves on his way in. Uri's death is implied when Archy tells Johnny that the painting "cost a very wealthy Russian an arm and a leg". Both deaths are implied, but neither are confirmed. Perhaps it will be explained in The Real Rocknrolla. a5c7b9f00b http://winglecno.jugem.jp/?eid=320 http://dayviews.com/ennoking/526827391/ http://foxtproovadtor.blogdiario.com/1537290788/ http://nighkacom.jugem.jp/?eid=334 http://www.nookl.com/article/338162/white-mule-full-movie-in-hindi-free-download-hd-720p http://iddogguo.jugem.jp/?eid=340 http://calecara.blogviajes.com/1537290787/ http://bestgendma.jugem.jp/?eid=327 http://searrumis.jugem.jp/?eid=327 http://ciopanpe.jugem.jp/?eid=288
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