Movie Review: RocknRolla

Watch n Doze Off.

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RATING: 0/5
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Not since Unbreakable (2000), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Right At Your Door (2008) have I seen such a boring movie like RocknRolla. But there’s certainly a difference between the 3 said movies and RocknRolla: Unbreakable, Brokeback Mountain and Right At Your Door were movies that managed to intrigue audiences with their underlying theories despite being more like overwritten tea break conversations, but RocknRolla is merely a piece of meaningless nonsense – something whose effectiveness exceeds that of sleeping pills dozen times over.

You know that there’s something very wrong with a film when you don’t even know what the movie is driving at even after it has ended. This is RocknRolla, a film that tries too hard to be as convoluted as possible – but succeeds only in leaving audiences befuddled at the end of the show. To summarize RocknRolla is impossible for it’s such an elaborate puzzle that only investigators and scientists can decipher what the movie is really about – but for the typical audiences (like yours truly and I), this movie does suggest that it touches on British gang culture.

But that’s about it. I didn’t have any idea what the film was prattling on about for the next 1.75 hours. I tried my best to stay awake to see if any interesting events would unfold – and I was rewarded – because there were! But perhaps it’s too obvious that some of these events were absolutely random and somewhat unnecessary. RocknRolla did attempt to introduce a gay character for some homosexuality-themed humor, but it was more trite than funny. In what seemed like a last-ditched effort to keep audiences awake, the movie threw in some supposedly laughter-inducing dancing moves, but all it did was to confirm that its humor was unequivocally random and mostly retarded – something which would only be entertaining to 3 year olds.

Final Comments
The result? RocknRolla is an extended tea break conversation – a VERY BORING one. RocknRolla is a film that attempts to be funny at points, but its humour falls all too flat. Bundle the pair of elements together, and what you have is a movie that you would find difficult to give a damn about, much less care for its cast of characters, which I feel are a number too many. Perhaps RocknRolla is a film best reserved for Britons for only the locals would (most likely) comprehend the gang culture portrayed here. In other words, if you are not a Briton, DON’T watch this movie because you will have NO idea what this movie is talking about. And no, the humor here is RETARDED. RocknRolla is the worst movie I have watched this year.