Under all the stylistic flash and dash, his movie is barely comprehensible; its big surprise ending is no surprise at all; and its coda almost seems like an insult.
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12/06/07
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
This 2005 feature offered me my first taste of Guy Ritchie's macho-centric artiness, and I hope it's my last.
12/06/07
Revolver turns out to be worse than Swept Away -- and not just by a little bit.
12/06/07
As the plot becomes increasingly convoluted -- as if two Ritchie gangster stories have been accidentally fused -- Jake's tortured state becomes ours.
12/06/07
The thing about being smooth is that it's not supposed to look like you're trying, and most of the time Ritchie seems like he's working hard.
12/06/07
There are quotations from Machiavelli, brainiac chess stratagems, meditations on the ego and suicide, and some of the clunkiest gangland gab this side of a Martin Scorsese parody.
12/06/07
Writer-director Guy Ritchie returns to his Brit-pulp roots, only this time he gets all intellectual, too. It's a deadly combination.
12/06/07
Caution! Guy Ritchie has entered his Ingmar Bergman phase.
12/05/07
Gangsters prancing about like homicidal matadors unusually impressed with themselves, dreary macho interior monologues, and mob rackets that are mostly the noisy migraine-induced racket inside audience heads.
12/05/07
Revolver disappoints.
12/04/07
While it's unclear if this nonsense is propaganda for Madonna's Kabbalah dogma, there's absolutely no doubt that Revolver achieves a higher plane of badness.
12/02/07
Ritchie may still be working within his beloved cockney gangster milieu, but he does to it something akin to what Alessandro Jodorowsky did to the Western with El Topo, or to the slasher flick with Santa Sangre.
08/06/07
Revolver comes off like Jim Thompson crossed with Philip K. I liked it, because of the audacious solution, but I suspect that not many other people will agree.
02/11/06
This is Ritchie definitely back in form.
02/03/06
I can't remember another time in my film-watching career where I sincerely hated a movie ... one of the worst films ever made
01/26/06
This is the perfect movie for those who like to crack things open and dig around the innards, with Ritchie encouraging interpretation and curiosity with each new scene.
01/19/06
Really nice on the eyes, but this will make your brain hurt. I don't think repeated viewings will clarify anything, either.
09/14/05
Guy Ritchie shoots a blank with Revolver, which replays the low-life criminal shtick from his first two features with an ill-advised overlay of pretension.
09/13/05
Top CriticA cold, cerebral exercise in existential mannerisms that one watches with increasing dismay.
09/12/05
Top CriticAny semblance of a cohesive narrative arc is junked early on, and those who can sit through Revolver and claim to have "followed it completely" is a bald-faced liar.
09/10/05
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