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Revolver (2005)

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André Benjamin, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Terence Maynard, Vincent Pastore ... (see more)

Gambler and conman Jake Green always ran with a bad crowd and it cost him seven years in jail. After his release, Jake becomes unbeatable at the tables using a formula for the ultimate con that he learned from two mysterious prisoners while on the inside. Now, he is ready to take his revenge against... (read more)

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R, 1 hr. 55 min.
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Release Date: Oct 22, 2005
DVD Release Date: Mar 18, 2008

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3 hours ago
of all the Guy Ritchie films, I like this one the best. I think apart from Fight Club, I don't know of another movie that will go after the post-modern existential angst and internal conflict that plague 'modern' life.
3 days ago
This British crime thriller is more along the lines of Sun Tzu, pyschology and eastern thought than mindless shoot-em up nonsense. I can now say without fear of contradiction not only is Guy Ritchie a skillful director, but also a story-teller with a... (read more)
5 days ago
This movie was so clever and I imagine multiple watches would only make it better! Jason Statham was amazing in it! An unusual character for him. Andre was clever and stylish as usual and Ray Liotta was great. But the stand out for me was Mark Strong... (read more)
8 days ago
So horribly horrible - one of the five worst films I've ever seen
13 days ago
If I have to tell about this movie in one word, it would be "confusing" and not in a good way. The movie tries to be intellectual and smart with all mumbo jumbo nonsence about ego, but this only makes it hard to follow the damn movie. And the outcome... (read more)

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756 days ago
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Guy Ritchie's greasy little noir Revolver is good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention.
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756 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A frothing mad film that thrashes against its very sprocket holes in an attempt to bash its brains out against the projector. It seems designed to punish the audience for buying tickets.
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756 days ago
Pete Hammond, Maxim
A psychological thriller that focuses more on the 'psycho' than the 'logical' for its own good. But who says everything has to make sense when you're just trying to blow a few brains out?
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757 days ago
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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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761 days ago
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
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.
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