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.
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12/06/07
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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
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
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
Tedious, humourless, pretentious and nasty.
09/26/05
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
While it starts intriguingly, it unravels into incoherent confusion.
09/24/05
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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