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Revolver
Samuel Goldwyn Films


4.9

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MPAA RATING: R for violence, language and some nudity

Starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and Vincent Pastore

Gambler and conman Jake Green always ran with a bad crowd, and it cost him seven years of his life when he took the rap for mean Dorothy Macha and wound up in jail. After his release, Jake becomes unbeatable at the tables using a formula for the ultimate con that he learned from two mysterious fellow prisoners. Now he is ready to take his revenge. Macha is plotting to eliminate his ruthless rival, Lord John, and has staked his credibility on a huge drug deal with the all-powerful Sam Gold. Jake visits Macha at his casino and humiliates him publicly in a game of chance. Macha, fearing more of the same medicine, sends his goons to "take care of" Jake. His life is saved by enigmatic Zach, who, with his equally inscrutable partner Avi, offers Jake protection. Against his better judgment, Jake accepts. He soon finds himself playing the very last game he wants to be playing, and there is danger at every turn. But the biggest danger of all comes from a totally unexpected source... (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

GENRE(S):	Crime \| Drama \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Luc Besson (adaptation) Guy Ritchie
DIRECTED BY:	Guy Ritchie
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: March 18, 2008 Theatrical: December 7, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	115 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	France / UK
LANGUAGE(S):	English / Cantonese

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

New York Post Kyle Smith

Good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention.

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly.

Chicago Tribune Sid Smith

Part gambling heist, part graphic novel, part metaphysical mumbo jumbo, Revolver is a mess of many colors, few of them satisfying.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Definitely deserves points for trying to be something thought-provoking and different, but it doesn't really stand up to analysis and it comes off as a pretentious mess.

Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling

The movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Its main purpose -- and no, you are not experiencing ocular breakdown -- is spiritual.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A few scenes are stylish enough to amuse, but they all add up to nothing - leaving you ten bucks short and feeling like a sucker.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Guy Ritchie's Revolver premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival two years ago September. That's 26 months on a shelf somewhere, depriving moviegoers the thrill of jaw-droppingly awful Ray Liotta line readings, of bloody shoot-outs, bags of money, cutaways to frosty babes sucking on lollipops, and even a bit of violent anime.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The film's pretentious style and fractured storytelling preclude any audience involvement in the coy melodrama.

Village Voice Nick Pinkerton

It's no return to rock, this, but rather Ritchie's soporific, proggy-conceptual Film of Ideas, with Vivaldi interludes, fussbudget set design, recurrent references to chess, and a hit man inexplicably got up as Tati's Mr. Hulot.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

The result is a film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

The movie's onslaught of psychobabble is the annoyance most likely to ruin your evening. Imagine getting stuck on a ski lift with Dr. Phil for nearly two hours.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Surprise of surprises, Revolver turns out to be worse than "Swept Away" - and not just by a little bit.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Ritchie has said that it takes several viewings to fully understand what's going on in Revolver, but once will be enough for most to agree to take his word for it.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

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.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

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

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Ritchie wraps this folderol in cinematic razzle-dazzle, including animated sequences, reverse motion, trompe l'oeil production design and tricky lighting. But it's still claptrap.

Variety Todd McCarthy

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. The action, attitude and wise-guy talk all feel moldy this time around.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It is a "thriller" without thrills, constructed in a meaningless jumble of flashbacks and flash-forwards and subtitles and mottos and messages and scenes that are deconstructed, reconstructed and self-destructed. I wanted to signal the projectionist to put a gun to it.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

This 2005 feature offered me my first taste of Guy Ritchie's macho-centric artiness, and I hope it's my last.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

Although it contains crime and absurdity, it's not thrilling or funny and the title doesn't refer to a gun.

The average user rating for this movie is 4.9 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Pavel B gave it a10:
This is one of the most sophisticated and interesting movies I have ever seen. Guy Ritchie has created of the brightest pictures for the time. It is extremely sad that public as well as educated critics were not satisfied with its depth and style. This movie is a must have.

Brendan S gave it a10:
This film is brilliant. Ignore the bad the reviews.

Cat S gave it a0:
This is two hours of your life you will *never* get back.

MOSTAFA B gave it a10:
I'm really sorry for every man who see this movie and give a rating like a 0!!!!!! do you understand a movie at all that you give a rating?!!! I recommend to everyone to watch this movie Forget about a rating and review that you can see in this page just look at these ratings, you can understand what is my point a movie like a 3:10 to Yuma:76!!!(a stupid adaptation) transformers:61!!!!!!!(totally a stupid movie) revolver:24??!!

NELG gave it a1:
I will write a review in English. This is one of the worst films i have ever seen. Crap story badly explained, over the top acting, boring, stupid. Just feels like they have shot the film and then mixed it up to make it un watchable. They've tried to be too smart and its a complete failure. Would die before watching this again. Gave it one for the imagery.

Leo C gave it a0:
Self indulgence taken to the extreme. It's a picture so self-involved in the director's pseudo intellectual concept, that it forgets to bring the viewer along and actually tell a story. A complete waste of talent and resources.

Dan V gave it a0:
Armund W's mini-review is absolutely hilarious and far more entertaining then the movie itself. Guy Ritchie should lobby to get it printed on the DVD jacket. For those of you who don't speak Pretentious, I have translated his review: "It's downright awesome while maintaining an indescribably crude hold on neo-noirism in contemporary British cinema (this sentence defies translation). The content of Revolver is thrilling and better then the violent stuff found in gloomy, fake Hollywood movies like American Gangster and Eastern Promises."

Revolver Samuel Goldwyn Films

Revolver
Samuel Goldwyn Films