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Revolver (2005)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 53

In attempting to meld his successful previous formulas with philosophical musings, Guy Ritchie has produced an incoherent misfire.

Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 18

In attempting to meld his successful previous formulas with philosophical musings, Guy Ritchie has produced an incoherent misfire.

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Movie Info

After learning the secrets of manipulation, graft, and deceit while incarcerated, a recently released ex-convict sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars in maverick director Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama. For seven long years, Jake Green (Jason Statham) has bided his time while learning the rules of the game from a chess master and a top con artist who shared adjacent cells. Macha (Ray Liotta) is the cold and

R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Guy Ritchie

Written By: Guy Ritchie

In Theaters: Oct 22, 2005 Wide

On DVD: Mar 18, 2008

Box Office:$41.8k

Samuel Goldwyn Films

[A]bout as compelling a brief for Kabbalah as Battlefield Earth was for scientology.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: New Republic

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Christopher Orr

New Republic

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Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie's luster.

December 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Sid Smith

Chicago Tribune

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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.

December 14, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

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Guy Ritchie's greasy little noir Revolver is good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

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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.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

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Revolver, the latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

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An unwieldy, short-circuiting film, packing "more tricks than a clown's pocket" yet imbued with brute spiritual force

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Jesus, this is a stupid movie.

January 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

It's not worth the bother.

April 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

The film is very much a product of its particular zeitgeist, an era in which inner awareness is pimped out on every corner like a gussied-up whore.

March 21, 2008 Full Review Source: UGO

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Keith Uhlich

UGO

Revolver looks like a gritty gangster thriller and plays like The Matrix with an incoherent stream of spacey psychobabble.

March 20, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com

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Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

A bloated actioner.

March 17, 2008 Comment

Staci Layne Wilson

Buzzine Magazine

Like De Palma before him, Ritchie knows how to express substance through style.

March 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Stranger Song

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Rob Humanick

Stranger Song

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.

March 15, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

... 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.

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Ritchie has packed Revolver with so much 'substance' that it completely overwhelms his still somewhat charming style.

January 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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.

December 21, 2007 Comment

Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat Source: Los Angeles CityBeat

Revolver is bat**** crazy, and I mean that as a high compliment.

December 17, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO

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Keith Uhlich

UGO

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Classic Guy Ritchie with a twist. the reveal at the end i thought I saw but never saw it. Good stuff imo.

May 26, 2008

John Manard

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Cast: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, Andr� Benjamin, Terence Maynard, Andrew Howard, Mark Strong, Francesca Annis, Anjela Lauren Smith, Elana Binysh Director: Guy RitchieSummary: Determined to hustle the crime boss who killed his sister-in-law, gangster and ace gambler Jake deliberately humiliates the

June 12, 2009

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1. Avi: There's no such thing as problems, Mr. Green. Only situations.
– Submitted by Ryan D (10 months ago)
1. Jake Green: One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's always an opponent, and there's always a victim. The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former.
– Submitted by Chris P (12 months ago)
1. Jake Green: There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty puss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I'm special. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-fuckin' rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.
– Submitted by Chris P (12 months ago)

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