Revolver: a title of breathtaking unoriginality for a movie of breathtaking unoriginality.
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12/07/07
Revolver (2007)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:10
Rotten:49
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
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, André Benjamin
Director: Guy Ritchie
Reviews for Revolver
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
A big-time misfire.
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
Between the manic editing, atrocious acting, and laughably pretentious narration, Ritchie's tired tricks feel like empty distractions in a game of three-card Monte.
12/07/07
The problem with Revolver is that it is Ritchie's first attempt at a 'serious' look at the underworld, but the result is so pretentious and muddled it's almost a little embarrassing.
12/07/07
In a movie about control, it's Ritchie who's adrift, and it's not looking like he's going to come back.
12/07/07
Revolver, the latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it.
12/07/07
The movie's hit-to-miss ratio is hardly Olympic caliber, but Mr. Ritchie deserves credit for chutzpah.
12/07/07
Top CriticA film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end.
12/07/07
Top CriticRevolver bogs down badly less than halfway through in a repetitious loop of navel-gazing.
12/07/07
The mystery surrounding the production and how someone as talented as Ritchie could produce a film this ineptly made are the most interesting elements of Revolver.
12/07/07
Ritchie means to be deep here, yet he's never seemed so shallow.
12/07/07
A frothing mad film that thrashes against its very sprocket holes in an attempt to bash its brains out against the projector. It seems designed to punish the audience for buying tickets.
12/07/07
Top CriticA psychological thriller that focuses more on the 'psycho' than the 'logical' for its own good. But who says everything has to make sense when you're just trying to blow a few brains out?
12/07/07
Even the legion of Ritchie fans hooked on the kineticism and casual violence of Snatch will surely turn on the man after seeing Revolver. He has added an insufferable pretense to his usual smugness.
12/07/07
This may not be the single dumbest movie of the year but, to paraphrase Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men (a film as good as this one is bad), it will do until the dumbest one finally arrives.
12/06/07
Ritchie remains hopelessly inept at delivering a caper flick that's as fun as it is flashy, but now he looks like a pretentious jackass too.
12/06/07
After 2002's terrible Swept Away and now Revolver, Ritchie has managed to make, back to back, two of the worst films any one director can lay claim to.
12/06/07
The prospect of Ritchie going back to the gangster genre a third time is unappetizing, but it has nothing on his feeble attempt to reinvent it.
12/06/07
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