A confusing, frustrating and failed attempt to intellectualise the Lock, Stock formula. Anyone know what this movie's about? Answers on a postcard, please.
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09/26/05
Revolver (2007)
16 %
Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 9 Rotten:47 Average Rating: 3.5/10
Consensus:
In attempting to meld his successful previous formulas with philosophical musings, Guy Ritchie has produced an incoherent misfire.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Synopsis: Director Guy Ritchie’s (LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) fourth feature film is about a hard-bitten gambler named Jake Green (played by Ritchie favorite Jason Statham). Green has just spent a lengthy stretch in jail and is seeking revenge on the man who put him behind bars--crime... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, André Benjamin, Terrence Maynard
Director: Guy Ritchie
Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie
Producer: Luc Besson, Pierre Spengler, Virginie Silla-Besson
Composer: Nathaniel Mechaly
Screenwriter: Guy Ritchie
Producer: Luc Besson, Pierre Spengler, Virginie Silla-Besson
Composer: Nathaniel Mechaly
Reviews
Top Critic
There's no point beating around the bush - Revolver is a complete and utter mess from start to finish.
09/24/05
It’s long been said that films have the power to inspire violence in the viewing public. Revolver is one such movie -- a piece of work guaranteed to send you into a violent frenzy.
09/24/05
Like De Palma before him, Ritchie knows how to express substance through style.
03/15/08
... given Ritchie's penchant for flashy, in-your-face twists, we trust all will be revealed in good time. But as "Revolver" rolls on -- and on and on and on -- it becomes painfully apparent that Ritchie's firing blanks.
01/04/08
Ritchie has packed Revolver with so much 'substance' that it completely overwhelms his still somewhat charming style.
01/03/08
If I understand the ending properly, [this] is an infomercial for one or another school of New Age-y psychology/philosophy. ... a touchy-feely ultraviolent gangster flick. Come over here and give Scarface a hug, you big gruff pussycat.
12/21/07
Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie’s luster.
12/17/07
The plot isn't intellectually challenging as much as it is confusing, and yet the big twist is completely telegraphed. Ritchie has created a movie that is patronizingly obvious one minute and impenetrable the next.
12/14/07
Creepy and mysterious as The Usual Suspects, unseen forces and cryptic messages pit men against themselves in one of the darkest and best action-thrillers of the year.
12/09/07
Revolver: a title of breathtaking unoriginality for a movie of breathtaking unoriginality.
12/07/07
It's an irritating, repetitive and pretentious psycho-metaphysical con-job that's ultimately about transcending the ego, and it owes a significant debt to the 1960s The Prisoner TV show -- but isn't nearly in the same artistic league.
12/07/07
Guy Ritchie's greasy little noir Revolver is good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention.
12/07/07
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