1. Welcome back, Guy. Give our regards to the Missus.
2. [Ritchie's] latest effort has the sprawling cast of characters and all the convolutions you'd expect, but none of the wit or joy necessary to distract from its shallowness.
3. Even the rock music just seems immature. It's clearly a crutch, because none of these scenes would be cool without a pounding score... This is all the kind of abrasive rock that kids like to annoy their parents.
4. Guy Ritchie's latest is an exercise in substance-less style.
5. Ritchie's main interest is trying to reignite his stalled career by cribbing shamelessly from Tarantino, Danny Boyle and many other far more talented filmmakers.
6. The denizens of Guy Ritchie's now-familiar London underworld milieu seem second-string here, even though the writer/director has recruited some new faces.
7. The actual plot is so uselessly convoluted you'd get a headache just reading it -- but you might want to pull out the Advil anyway, given Ritchie's reliance on flashy editing, a blasting soundtrack and fetishized gunplay.
8. Ritchie whisks you along on a whirlwind tour, but he's not averse to putting on the brakes long enough to admire some of his favorite attractions.
9. Sometimes it amounts to a laugh or two.
10. Great title for a gangster flick. Too bad that writer-director Guy Ritchie only partially realizes the sizzling potential.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?
Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys.