YMMV / RocknRolla

• Anti-Climax Boss: The Russian mercenaries—two incredibly tough and tenacious badasses who...eventually get shot by Archy. Offscreen.
• Awesome Music: Again, Guy Ritchie is known for this. Try "Bank Robber" and "Have Love Will Travel".
  • Also, "Rock & Roll Queen"
  • The main theme, Black Strobe's "I'm a Man," that plays over the opening credits is an ear worm.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: That annoying weird martial arts kid.
• Catharsis Factor: Lenny is such a cold-hearted, self-important sadist that seeing him get kneecapped over a theft he didn't commit and left to crawl across the golf course feels fairly karmic. And then there's the later scene where his own men drown him after finding out he's been selling them out to the cops.
• Complete Monster: Lenny Cole, the premiere crime boss in all of London, will do anything and everything to secure his position and the fear of others. Lenny was a vile stepfather to Johnny Quid, abusing the latter throughout childhood and blaming him for his mother's suicide, something Lenny himself is implied to have been responsible for. A sadist when dealing with targets of his wrath, Lenny enjoys torturing his victims by dunking them into a river and setting vicious crayfish upon them, showcasing this horrid method by having two men tortured and killed in this way even after they've given him info he wanted. Trying to subject the Wild Bunch to the same fate while ordering Johnny and his innocent managers be killed as punishment for the lot messing with his enterprises, Lenny is revealed to be the infamous police informant plaguing the underground, having sold out each and every criminal he's dealt with to years in prison to both save his own neck, and to eliminate rivals.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the years since this film was released, the international real estate and housing market (Which all the characters constantly refer to as booming and overflowing with cash) has undergone a collapse the likes of which has not been seen in years, and was actually one of the instigating factors for the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. It was not intentional, he did not see the collapse coming, but in the DVD Commentary, Guy Ritchie explains that this collapse came about because of exactly what the characters in the film are doing. Not the violence and crime, but people buying low-cost properties and inflating their prices and re-selling them in a long chain from one to the next until the entire system ultimately collapses under its own weight.
  • Lenny immediately suspects that Johnny faked his death (before the events of the film began) and questions Roman, his manager, if he personally saw the body. Specifically, he asks "Did you see him hanging from the ceiling with his cock in his hand, like a real Rockn Rolla?" Cue the news of how David Carradine really died...
• Ho Yay: Uri's right-hand man Victor is extremely protective, does his dirty work, follows him around like a puppy and hates Stella's guts. And all Uri's ex-girlfriends. And phones Uri to interrupt him proposing to Stella. Then he presumably kills Stella.
  • That was because she had come into possession of the painting, as a gift from One-Two. Neither of them were aware of its value or its true owner. Uri assumed she was the one responsible for its theft, and gave Victor the order.
  • Uri also has undeniably bad taste in women. Viktor could have Ho Yay feelings, be a simple Beleaguered Assistant, or both.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Ritchie's crime films are often criticized for being too similar to each other.
• Jerkass Woobie: Johnny Quid is a coarse, violent, sneering junkie who treats people with little to no respect. He's also been abused, both physically and verbally, by Lenny for most if not all of his childhood and was constantly shipped out to boarding schools so Lenny wouldn't have to deal with him. Even worse, he's constantly blamed for causing his mother to commit suicide, something the film implies isn't his fault in the slightest. Is it any wonder the dude turned out the way he did?
• Magnificent Bastard: Archy is the cunning right hand man to Lenny Cole, surpassing his boss in intelligence, honor and coolness throughout the film. A major proponent in Lenny's everyday dealings, Archy uses his criminal connections to track down targets, intimidates and charms enemy and ally alike to pay their dues, and takes down dangerous assassins all by his lonesome. Already disturbed and off-put by his boss's abusive, psychopathic behavior, Archy finally has enough when he learns Lenny is a police informant who sells out his own kind, leading Archy to betray and murder Lenny to assume control over his organization and take the man's adult son as his new protege.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • The second robbery, and its subsequent chase sequence.
  "Abandon ship!"
  • A wounded Johnny methodically telling Mickey and Roman how they're being taken to their execution (with flash-forwards), unsettling their guards/executioners enough for Mickey and Roman to get the drop on them, with Johnny then telling them how to take out the guards waiting at the bottom of the elevator.
• Rooting for the Empire: Ruthless gangster or not, it's not hard to root for Uri a little as the Wild Bunch repeatedly robs him. His desire to break into legitimate businesses, the coolness of his Made of Iron enforcers, and how he deals with Lenny and Stella in good faith all make him somewhat likable, especially in comparison to Lenny. 

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