Is it just me and my inability to see the positive attributes of any movie I see or has Hollywood completely lost its common when it comes to the scripts being produced and the crap the movie going public is forced to endure? Come on man. Matinees these days are ten bucks in the East Bay. Every review I have read of RocknRolla has praised the brazen come back of the cinematic genius behind Snatch. Guy Ritchie is back in full force....or is that farce?
No matter how many times I watch Snatch I laugh my ass off. Or, is that arse? The moment I saw the first trailer for RocknRolla I prayed this movie would put my man Mr. Madonna back into the hard charging badass filmmaker he made himself out to be with such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Star and Snatch. Leaving well behind him such duds as Swept Away, Suspect, Revolver and the Mr. Madonna moniker his marriage to the ever aging Babs earned him. Or, it is it Mr. Babs?
After Snatch hit Hollywood I am sure Guy was Guy and was often referred to as Mr. Ritchie. Especially by the young women who wanted to be in his films. Sorry to say it, but no matter how hardcore, big swinging balls, guns smoking in the mist, showers of bullets, offbeat musical inserts and quirky English terms resulting in off kilter conversations cool RocknRolla seems to be during its commercials, this film carries the intensity of a pack of Cub Scouts jamming phillips-head screws into bars of soap.
Filled with the plot twists you would expect from the same Guy who brought you Snatch, RocknRolla lacks the humor, freeze frames, intense action, character development, sarcasm and full on "Mockney" style that originally made Guy Ritchie the king of English gangster films. RocknRolla has no Boris the Blade or Franky Four Fingers. RocknRolla doesn't have a trailer park filled with Pikies who's King is a hard punching, illiterate Brad Pitt.
From washed up rock stars who are now thieving heroin addicts (how cliche) to inept crooks RocknRolla is the bastard child Snatch is trying to forget. Stathamless, RocknRolla finds itself driven by a much less charming and even less funny Gerard Butler surrounded by gangsters who are even more forgettable and hardly frightening unless you happen to be golfing with them.
Jason Statham has stuck with Guy Ritchie since Lock Stock and could certainly credit his Stateside success directly to the roles he has played in Ritchie films. The fact that Statham didn't make even a small appearance in RocknRolla only tells me his days of hanging around Guy Ritchie waiting for lightening to strike the same place twice are done and gone.
Cue the Ice, Ice Baby music.....
If there's a need for a laugh Snatch will solve it. Check out that flick while your DVD player revolves it.
Snatch, Snatch baby!
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