Nearly a decade after proving that lightning could indeed strike twice with
Snatch -- his giddy, reputation-cementing follow-up to the landmark
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -- it would seem that Guy Ritchie is finally starting to grow up. Sure, he's still got a good pint of piss in him, but in the wake of such box-office disasters as
Swept Away and
Revolver, he seems to finally understand that sometimes it pays to exercise a bit of restraint. In the past, the frantic, highly stylized credit sequence that opens
RocknRolla would have been indicative of the rest of the movie, and Ritchie would probably have attempted to maintain...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins