RocknRolla takes a dangerous ride into high crime and low life in
contemporary London, where real estate has supplanted drugs as the biggest market,
and criminals are its most enthusiastic entrepreneurs. But for anyone looking to get in—from small-time crook One Two (Gerard Butler) to shady Russian billionaire Uri
Obomavich (Karel Roden)—there's only one man to see: Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson).
A mobster from the old school, Lenny knows the right wheels to grease and has
his hand on the throat of any bureaucrat, broker or gangster that matters. With one
phone call, Lenny can make the red tape disappear. But as Lenny's right-hand man
Archy (Mark Strong) tells him, London is ground zero for the changing times, with bigtime
mobsters from the East, hungry criminals from the streets, and everyone inbetween,
all vying to change the rules of commerce and crime.
With millions up for grabs, all of London's criminal underworld conspires, colludes
and collides with one another in an effort to take their cut. But as high rollers and petty
criminals alike jockey for dominance, the true prize of one multi-million-dollar deal will fall
into the hands of a junkie rock star (Toby Kebbell)—Lenny's stepson, presumed dead
but very much alive.
Absurd, awesome, brutal, convoluted, edgy, gritty, hysterical, loud, raw, sexy, stylish, surprising, wicked, yes. Fantastic!
By far the best script of any movie I've seen this year. It was way better than the ads lead me to expect. A real pleasure to watch. It should have been up for a best screenplay oscar.