RocknRolla Movie Review From The Toronto Film Festival

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TIFF '08: "JCVD," "O'Horten," and "RocknRolla"
Published 9/6/2008 by TonyD (noreply@blogger.com) at FilmArcade.net
[image] The Toronto International Film Festival has just started, and already I’m hearing some extraordinary things from there. Today, I decided to give a look at three films that were shown yesterday at the festival – “JCVD,” “O’Horten,” and Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla.” This is only the start of several days of coverage. The premise of “JCVD” sounds pretty damn good: Being Jean-Claude Van Damme is tough. Sure, he is an internationally recognized celebrity (and possibly the world's most famous Belgian), but this star seems to have fallen from grace with a recent history of direct-to-video flicks. But the "Muscles from Brussels" is back! In JCVD, Van ...

You review: Rocknrolla
Published 9/8/2008 by Ben Child at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... says the movie "brings back too many jaundiced memories and fails to lay any fresh tracks". Is this just a case of po-faced Brits laying into one of their own, however? US trade bible Variety describes Rocknrolla as Ritchie's return "to top form". The film is "cleverly constructed, sensationally stylish and often darkly hilarious" writes Joe Laydon. What do you reckon? Does it matter that Rocknrolla is almost identical in style to Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? Is this one the movie equivalent of a Rolling Stones classic, or a filler track from a late-era ...

Life imitates art?
Published 10/9/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Joe Leydon) at MovingPictureBlog
Did someone forget to tell Gerard Butler that RocknRolla already had wrapped?