Saturday evening I rolled out to the movies with the boys. This was the first movie I have seen (in a theater) since I came back from New Hampshire (Your boy has been mad busy). The consensus was to see the new Guy Ritchie movie RocknRolla. I was skeptical, I have seen a couple of trailers and although it seemed like a decent action movie I would want to see I was not sure if it was worth my ten bucks, well to get straight to the point it was worth it.

RocknRolla is a typical British organized crime movie about a renegade Rock and roll artist, his criminal father, a filthy rich Russian and a couple of scum bags in between all this.  The movie’s characters were very British, very few popular faces but the acting was good and so were the action sequences. Without revealing a lot, the movie felt very much like other British organized crime movies like Layer cake which is a good thing. The dialogue was on point and the directing was impressive and there was even a lucky painting they refused to show us throughout the whole movie.

What struck about the movie was the criminal lifestyle as well as the mindset. Have you ever watched a movie about bad people (by societies standards) but at the end you wanted to be just like them? One thing movies like this do is show us a glamorized view of a criminals life, a very narrow perspective highlighting what is attractive about becoming a gangster, a killer or a RocknRolla. The sex, the adventures, the power, the money and all that comes with it, but it is easily forgotten that this Mafia don that has a sophisticated criminal empire and is untouchable is also someone’s dad, someones best friend and has personal problems too. When I watch these movies I sit back and say wow I want a life exciting like that where do I sign up? where are these people? is this life so exclusive? but NO! these people live all around us, you may just know them as Andy’s dad or Jenny’s cousin and you cannot understand/see that this person plays another role in society due to how you know them but they have a different life from what you know. With this realization the life style doesn’t look that exciting anymore cause these guys are not so different from me and you, their life is not all that glamorous, it just is if you decide to take out every other boring thing.

Even I can pull of a hit reality Tv Show if you decide to delete all the boring parts like where I think up and type up blog posts like this and other mundane things I do cause I am human. Now I feel cheated, I feel lied to cause that cool, exclusive life I have always dreamt of living might not really exist, well if you know where I can get one please let me know and I will be indebted to you for the rest of my exciting life.

Although this movie was not the greatest thing I have seen, it was worth my ten bucks, well it just made the mark. If you like movies like Snatch and Revolver (typical Guy Ritchie movies) then you would love this one as well, its just a new script put into his old formula. I’ll definately watch this again cause it is one of those movies that turns out better the second time you watch it, so if your bored and looking for some adrenaline rush go check this movie out.