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About this movie

Genres:
Crime, Action & Adventure
Language:
English
Running time:
1:44:41
Rating:
R
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Jason Statham Jake Green
  2. Ray Liotta Dorothy Macha
  3. Vincent Pastore Zach
  4. Andre Benjamin
  5. André Benjamin Avi
  6. Terence Maynard French Paul
  7. Andrew Howard Billy
  8. Mark Strong Sorter
  9. Francesca Annis Lily Walker
  10. Anjela Lauren Smith Doreen
  11. Elana Binysh Rachel

Directors

  1. Guy Ritchie

Producers

  1. Luc Besson
  2. Virginie Silla
  3. Virginie Silla Besson
  4. Marty Katz

Writers

  1. Guy Ritchie

Revolver


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 calculated gangster who sent Jake up the river after ruthlessly ending the life of Jake's beloved sister-in-law. When Jake turns up at the casino and humiliates Macha on the floor for all to see, the seething gangster wastes no time in putting a hearty price on his old foe's head. Inexplicably saved from Macha's assassins by a pair who only identify themselves as Avi (Andre Benjamin) and Zach (Vincent Pastore), Jake isn't sure whether to trust his guardian angels or flee from them. The only thing Jake does know for sure is that his thirst for revenge grows stronger every day, and it won't be satisfied until Macha meets his maker.

Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'rotten' by Rotten Tomatoes

16%Tomatometer score: 16% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Negative review
    Christopher Orr, New Republic [A]bout as compelling a brief for Kabbalah as Battlefield Earth was for scientology. Full review External link
  2. Negative review
    Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie's luster. Full review External link
  3. Negative review
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle 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. Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    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. Full review External link
  5. Negative review
    Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News 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. Full review External link
  6. Negative review
    Wesley Morris, Boston Globe Revolver, the latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it. Full review External link
  7. Positive review
    Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times The movie's hit-to-miss ratio is hardly Olympic caliber, but Mr. Ritchie deserves credit for chutzpah.
  8. Negative review
    Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times A film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end. Full review External link
  9. Negative review
    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. Full review External link

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