There's humour in Ritchie's RocknRolla retread

Gerard Butler plays small-time hood One Two in 'RocknRolla.' Peter Howell Movie Critic RocknRolla (out of 4) Starring Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong and Toby Kebbell. Written and directed by Guy Ritchie. 114 minutes. At the Varsity. 14A During his Madonna years of artistic penury, Guy Ritchie has come to resemble none other than Brad Pitt's mumbling scrapper Mickey O'Neil from Snatch (2000), Ritchie's last clever film. The more Ritchie has flailed away at dross like Swept Away and Revolver, the two movies that nearly sunk his career, the more unintelligible and irrelevant he has become. Can this really be the guy whom people use to call the next Tarantino? But we must remember that Mickey was one of the funniest things about Snatch, even if the movie was highly derivative of Lock, Stock and Two... [read full story]