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.
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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.
Theatrical Release:Dec 7, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $41,820
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
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Reviews for Revolver
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
A confusing, frustrating and failed attempt to intellectualise the Lock, Stock formula. Anyone know what this movie's about? Answers on a postcard, please.
09/26/05
Caution! Guy Ritchie has entered his Ingmar Bergman phase.
12/05/07
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
Revolver: a title of breathtaking unoriginality for a movie of breathtaking unoriginality.
12/07/07
[A]bout as compelling a brief for Kabbalah as Battlefield Earth was for scientology.
09/22/08
Top CriticIt’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
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01/18/08
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
Top CriticBetween 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
This is Ritchie definitely back in form.
02/03/06
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
An unwieldy, short-circuiting film, packing "more tricks than a clown's pocket" yet imbued with brute spiritual force
08/27/09
Revolver bogs down badly less than halfway through in a repetitious loop of navel-gazing.
12/07/07
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