 Would you believe this is the first Guy Ritchie movie I ever saw? And it's one of my favorites. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys! Hey guys, this is my review for Rook'n'Rola. The film that I have embedded the soundtrack into my mind, and this was my first experience of seeing a Guy Ritchie movie. I would later go on to watch his other films, Stache, Blockstock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Sherlock Holmes movies. But really, this is a Guy Ritchie movie. Some people would say that he's kind of made the same movie multiple times, and there is some obvious structure similarities to Blockstock, Snatch, Rock'n'Rola, The Gentleman. But I liked Rock'n'Rola for a couple of reasons. One, being Tom Wilkinson's fancastic performance. Yeah, yeah, I've took it off the easel, and I'll put it on the wall. There, it looks like... Ah, see, I've been there! As Lenny Cole, I love Tom in this movie. He's a bastard, but he delivers his lines so well, to the point where one of my favorite lines in film still is... I laughed so hard watching this movie in theaters, I remember it still to this day. The second part is Mark Strong's performance as Archie. I loved his performance in this movie, thought he was great. He also has another fantastic line about taking someone to school with a slap. And then, finally, Toby Cabell. Toby Cabell's so fucking good in this movie. There are two monologues in this movie about drug use, one being from a character called Cookie, and then another one from Toby, while he's playing the piano talking about cigarettes. And both of them are so good. And Toby's just a fantastic performer in this movie, really delving into a drug addict. But also being a swarmy little asshole. I love how this film is about gangsters, but not about gangsters. It's about people trying to get one up on another. It's about criminals being criminals to criminals. And how even the most seemingly useless people in life can sometimes be your undoing. There's also a few people in this movie that were still kind of coming up in their ranks. Tom Hardy, a very young Tom Hardy's in this movie. We got Gerard Butler just off of the hype of 300. Idris Elba's in this movie, he does a fantastic job. Oh, there's a lot of big names in this movie if you were to look at it now. And it's kind of bonkers just how big this cast is. There's also some good action sequences in this movie. You've got a great high sequence with Gerard Butler's crew. That's both pretty intense as well as fucking hilarious. You've got absolutely snappy dialogue as always from Guy Ritchie. You've got great performances, some really good style. It's something that he would always improve upon after Lockstock is that his style got more and more subversed, a lot more pleasing to the eye and just really engaging. There is one major kind of complaint I do have about this movie is how it ends. It definitely wraps itself up way too conveniently. I do like how the movie comes to its end but I do feel that the main twist, specifically with Tom Wilkinson's character, really kind of comes out of left field. They hint at it ever so slightly twice and then all of a sudden you're given literally buckets of exposition to make that twist make sense at the end. It's not displeasing. I just feel like it's a bit lazy and it kind of feels like there should have been a little bit more to earn towards it and then it just kind of conveniently comes to an end. And also if there is something that I can't have, this is not a complaint about the movie. It's more so just the ever growing well of disappointment I have with each passing day is that they said there were going to be a sequel and this movie made no money and they never got a sequel. Guys said that he's wanting to do it but this movie came out in 2008 and for some reason the gentleman did better than this one did even though I feel that this is much better than the gentleman but regardless I like rock and roll it was a fantastic introduction to Guy Ritchie and I'm very happy that I went on to watch more of his movies. Maybe there are some things that have not aged the best. Gerard Butler's homophobia to handsome Bob like has some really funny lines but it's a little bit strong perhaps but otherwise I still really enjoy this movie. So in the end I'm going to give rock and roll a five out of seven. Watching this again got my wife and I on a track and we're starting to watch other Guy Ritchie movies again. We just watched Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels and I'm going to show her snatch for the first time very soon. Be expecting those reviews in the coming weeks. Anyways guys those are my thoughts about this movie. Very curious to see what you guys have to say. What do you guys think about this film? What do you guys think about Guy Ritchie as a director himself? And what do you feel about that comment that when he makes movies like this it's the same kind of Guy Ritchie movie? Curious to see what you have to say. Otherwise that's all from me. I hope you enjoyed this review. If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe and until then see you guys next time.