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Revolver
2005
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 51m
Gambler Jack Green (Statham) enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences. (imdb)
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Revolver
2005
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 51m
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Avg Percentile 41.63% from 1744 total ratings
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Rated 20 Jul 2008
50
17th
This movie can be summed up in five words: What the fuck just happened? Now, sometimes that can be a good thing, ala The Usual Suspects, unfortunately this isn't the case with Revolver. You can feel the pretentiousness oozing off the screen. There are many movies that have layers, and deeper meaning, but respect the audience and are good exercises in that type of storytelling, and as much as I wanted this to be one of them, it was not.
Rated 20 Jul 2008
Rated 07 Feb 2010
22
11th
I always wondered what it would feel like if Guy Ritchie would scream "LOOK AT HOW COOL AND SMART I AM! LOOK, DAMN YOU!" at me for 100 minutes. Now I know.
Rated 07 Feb 2010
Rated 01 Oct 2013
30
11th
A hustler just out of prison looks to get revenge on the guy who put him there, setting a bunch of bullshit in motion. Ritchie chooses to saddle this flick with unbelievably stupid and repetitive dialog about cons, reality, chess, the ego and any other pretentious nonsense that pops into his addled mind. The story is a circular mess featuring some really awful acting, a bit of decent action, and not much else. Not the worst Jason Statham movie I've seen, but only because Uwe Boll exists.
Rated 01 Oct 2013
Rated 04 Jul 2008
99
50th
Revolver is a very complex film, and it is Guy Ritchie's true masterpiece. It is not Snatch, so if that is what you're anticipating, you may well be disappointed. You shouldn't be because Revolver spins circles around Snatch, in a good way. This film is mature and it requires your undivided attention. Attention not just focused upon the dazzling cinematography or the brilliance of the performances, but your focus must stay with the dialogue. Revolver is a psychological action thriller...
Rated 04 Jul 2008
Rated 02 Nov 2008
70
80th
it sure is complex and multi layered, although you can't shake the feeling that there's a lack coherence in the story (or in other words, wtf happened??) but the photography, and the editing are excellent. the scene where moonlight sonata is playing on the background is pure art. Guy Ritchie has tried to move beyond cool gangster movies, and to a level he has succeeded.
Rated 02 Nov 2008
Rated 11 Jun 2014
100
97th
If you're looking for a movie to just pass time and entertain yourself with no exhaustion, then that movie isn't for ya, That movie has the potential to change the way you think forever, it took me 3 times to decipher the code, yeah and the third time i had a pen and a paper to write the quote and the ideas of the movie, it's a brilliant movie it's just not ordinary that' why it's very underrated.
Rated 11 Jun 2014
Rated 22 Sep 2008
41
3rd
Perhaps if someone explained to me what on earth was going on I could give this a higher mark, it just tries to be unnecassarily intelligent and only succeeds in coming across as pretencious and confusing.
Rated 22 Sep 2008
Rated 19 Dec 2014
79
33rd
"There is something about yourself that you don't know. 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 boss, 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" (I had to shorten this monlogue which i love to insert it here)
Rated 19 Dec 2014
Rated 10 Jan 2010
9
3rd
Ritchie you are a pretentious dickhole.
Rated 10 Jan 2010
Rated 08 Aug 2016
23
2nd
Some of the stupidest shit you'll ever see in a major motion picture. Too desperate and embarrassing to be funny though.
Rated 08 Aug 2016
Rated 29 Jan 2008
20
4th
Oh man what a mess. How can you repeat the same stupid phrases over and over? It takes itself so seriously that you can't even laugh at it. You can see the ending coming about 20 minutes in and the only suspense is whether it will ever make any sense. Andre 3000 was cool though.
Rated 29 Jan 2008
Rated 27 Apr 2009
12
60th
Like most films of its type it attempts to be so grand, so surprising, and so unpredictable; that it is the most clique, normal, boring, and predictable thing you could ever see.
Rated 27 Apr 2009
Rated 14 May 2009
46
26th
I'm a little bit torn on this film. While I somewhat enjoyed the over-the-top visual style and there are several memorable scenes, the movie is just lacking in...coherence? For every twist that threw me for a loop in the good way, there were two that made next to no sense. As per usual with Statham, he's not a bad actor, he's just in shit films. This one wasn't the total disaster I'd anticipated, but it certainly wasn't good either.
Rated 14 May 2009
Rated 23 Jun 2009
45
9th
Note to Guy Ritchie: stop trying so hard. And don't try to make a 'dramatic' film starring Jason Statham. It will never work. Never!
Rated 23 Jun 2009
Rated 31 Jul 2009
49
32nd
Suffers from incoherence and inconsistently jumbled and inarticulate features within its mangled plotline. Staham still has his usual enrapturement, but alll he does here is run and gun the entire film in a very yawn-inducing procedure. The editing however is prime Ritchie, which is to say excellent. My anticipations and premonitions for a failure were overrided only by triviality and minor paltriness, which I guess is good. Still a letdown from Ritchie. I expect better in the future. Pitiful.
Rated 31 Jul 2009
Rated 06 Feb 2012
59
36th
Ritchie's attempt to get back into the game is better than it probably should be thanks in no small part to a great cast. Ray Liotta in black light is reason enough to give this a once over.
Rated 06 Feb 2012
Rated 16 Mar 2012
77
22nd
I've heard that this contains a really deep sublime message, but to be honest the surface is so pretentious and unappealing that it doesn't encourage one to look down. Nevertheless there is something often captivating about it.
Rated 16 Mar 2012
Rated 19 Mar 2012
40
32nd
The strangest Guy Ritchie movie. Is it deep, or metaphysical gobbledygook? Who knows?
Rated 19 Mar 2012
Rated 28 Jun 2011
20
3rd
Awful. Nearly unwatchable... Guy Ritchie at his worst
Rated 28 Jun 2011
Rated 19 Jan 2012
30
31st
Oh man Guy Ritchie is such a genius!!!!!
Rated 19 Jan 2012
Rated 31 Aug 2011
61
19th
61.000
Rated 31 Aug 2011
Rated 22 Jun 2011
62
48th
Well, it -felt- like I was watching something cool! The visuals certainly lived up to their end of the bargain. But yeah, following the story was pretty much impossible; especially towards the end, where I didn't know what the hell. As such, the twists didn't have much of an impact, and the film struck me as trying to be more clever and deep than it really was. Still, love the visuals and dug the performances by Statham (who I'm not a fan of), André and Liotta (ham actor? Ham is delicious!).
Rated 22 Jun 2011
Rated 06 Jun 2011
40
20th
When I saw this, I thought it was going over my head and I was simply unprepared for watching it. In hindsight, I think it was just incoherent. Good production value and editing though, but that just makes it seem like Besson and Ritchie are trying too hard. Also some points for having Andre 3000 even though I don't know why he's there.
Rated 06 Jun 2011
Rated 25 Nov 2010
5
2nd
"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." - Nick Schager
Rated 25 Nov 2010
Rated 31 Oct 2010
82
41st
once you figure it out, you feel stupid, and its sorta interesting. but up until that point, I, personally, felt totally lost and confused.
Rated 31 Oct 2010
Rated 14 May 2012
67
29th
This is a classic case of a film with a fantastic premise that failed in execution. First of all, the animation sequences are terrible. If they ever had a chance of working they shouldn't have looked so fucking stupid. And second, Ritchie needs to learn how to pace himself properly. 20 minutes in and I already knew what the major twist at the end was. Third, it would help if Ritchie didn't recycle characters and names so often. Can we have a modicum of originality please?
Rated 14 May 2012
Rated 01 Jul 2012
25
3rd
Ritchie seems eager to shoot some sort of existential art film about the con world, by showing a bunch of angry, tense men making mind games with each other while there is a ghostface guy running the show and never getting his hands dirty. Most of the time, it feels just tricky, and not in a fun way.
Rated 01 Jul 2012
Rated 06 Nov 2012
78
75th
Would of scored higher - but I got lost at the end.
Rated 06 Nov 2012
Rated 13 Feb 2010
60
30th
Not completely terrible because at times the character portrait is intriguing. The problem is that it seems to lay on the quirkiness and style while throwing plot and character under the bus. It's abstract for abstractness sake. Ray Liotta is also a complete ham actor in this film and should have toned it down or gone in a different direction.
Rated 13 Feb 2010
Rated 16 Jun 2014
42
20th
Sorter is great though
Rated 16 Jun 2014
Rated 11 Aug 2014
90
81st
May just be too brilliant and enlightened for its own good. Oh, what a flaw.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
Rated 01 Feb 2015
75
79th
nice one, Statham
Rated 01 Feb 2015
Rated 29 Jul 2015
25
3rd
Interesting formulation of a superman but the deliberate, relentless obfuscation upon obfuscation adds nothing. Ritchie purposely destroys the audience's ability to learn as they watch; that has potential, but sorting it out only reveals that yes, there's coherence in here somewhere. So what? And boring blocking and lots of dim colored lights contributes to a visual meagerness like that of video game cutscenes of the time. Bottom line: stylistically bland and narratively not worth the trouble.
Rated 29 Jul 2015
Rated 01 Jan 2016
9
74th
There was a slight lack of coherence towards the end but still another great work from Guy Ritchie. Criminal take on enlightenment.
Rated 01 Jan 2016
Rated 19 Jan 2019
60
47th
What just happened? I think I had a blackout...
Rated 19 Jan 2019
Rated 27 Mar 2020
4
31st
Rated 27 Sep 2020
50
35th
ger; [revolver]; ein mann kommt aus dem gefängnis und will mit einem casinoinhaber eine langjährige schuld begleichen, nur um darauf zu erfahren dass er bald sterben wird - wobei zwei kredithaie ihm diesen weg erleichtern wollen.; (viele dramaturgische blenden und unnötige animationen);
Rated 27 Sep 2020
Rated 02 Apr 2022
70
21st
Gangster gets out of jail. Gangster meets gangsters and does gangster stuff. And there are other groups of gangsters. Gangsters trade money for drugs and kill each other, multiple times. Somebody owes money or drugs to somebody #2 so they're stressed about that. In the end, Gangster learns that he was tricked by gangsters.
Rated 02 Apr 2022
Rated 23 Feb 2024
40
8th
Weird fever dream
Rated 23 Feb 2024
Rated 30 Mar 2024
75
49th
Ritchie noodling around with an OCEAN’S ELEVEN style caper – he lacks Soderbergh’s light touch with the material, and this bogs down a little bit with his now convoluted plotting signature style, but it’s the performers who take the material and lift it into the air, with Statham great fun working in a noirish, sardonic key, and Liotta having the time of his life as the psychotic heavy; attempts to insert metaphysical twists into the third act feel unearned and pretentious.
Rated 30 Mar 2024
Rated 20 Apr 2008
74
25th
Thinks it's clever. Isn't.
Rated 20 Apr 2008
Rated 09 Feb 2009
65
41st
The movie starts of really well but towards the end really doesnt make sense. That kind of spoiled the entire movie. Worth watching just once.
Rated 09 Feb 2009
Rated 15 Jan 2009
94
97th
Probably the best Ritchie film, and a damn find mind blast.
Rated 15 Jan 2009
Rated 30 Oct 2008
50
13th
Very strange movie but I didn't like it very much, although
one uses beautiful colors in this film.
Rated 30 Oct 2008
Rated 06 Sep 2008
55
33rd
"WTF?!?" was the first thing in my mind after this. Now few days and lots of mindwork later I still can't get it. Too hard to watch and not nearly as entertaining as 'Snatch' etc.
Rated 06 Sep 2008
Rated 29 Aug 2008
50
15th
To be honest I struggle to place this film, or write anything clever so I'll just say what I imagine most people say at the end.
"Wat?"
Rated 29 Aug 2008
Rated 28 Jul 2008
90
91st
I might just be horribly pretentious but I dug this film. A lot. It's complex yeah, but it opens itself up for repeat viewings. This is my favourite Ritchie film for that reason among others, such as the convincing performances, enjoyable characters, interesting and deep script and the stylish direction and cinematography.
Rated 28 Jul 2008
Rated 19 Jul 2008
80
41st
it gets u in the end......
Rated 19 Jul 2008
Rated 16 Mar 2009
65
39th
This is one strange movie. Especially the last part just makes you think what the movie was about again. Very good cast, Very akward, twisting and tumbling plot. I enjoyed it a lot
Rated 16 Mar 2009
Rated 28 Jan 2008
64
37th
Very ambitious movie from Ritchie that doesn't quite hit it's mark. It has it's moments though.
Rated 28 Jan 2008
Rated 17 Aug 2007
2
36th
looks like the script is written by a suddenly self-enlightened high school student who is in the past only known for reciting dick jokes and eating worms until asked to leave
Rated 17 Aug 2007
Rated 14 Mar 2007
70
82nd
Excellent.
Rated 14 Mar 2007
Rated 25 Sep 2009
37
3rd
Heavily loaded with dialog of which very little could be considered beneficial to the viewer as an explaination of what was unfolding on screen made this all too difficult to understand. To Guy Ritchie this may be a very good film, but then he may at least understand what is going on.
Rated 25 Sep 2009
Rated 21 Aug 2010
70
53rd
I do think it is a good movie, it's just a little to fast and chaotic, but other than that - Nice one Mr. Ritchie, I misjudged you
Rated 21 Aug 2010
Rated 31 Jul 2010
99
97th
Be careful that you watch a version that includes the entire movie. Some rips (and the cheap DVD that I bought online) are lacking the final scene with Ray Liotta by his indoor pool.
Rated 31 Jul 2010
Rated 27 Jul 2010
75
75th
utterly pretentious and doesnt quite reach the heights it strives for. Im digging the effort, though.
Rated 27 Jul 2010
Rated 22 Mar 2010
25
7th
Mess.
Rated 22 Mar 2010
Rated 15 Mar 2010
40
3rd
For style and delivery, I rate highly, for everything else, nothing. The story is confusing and I ended up knowing less about the movie than at the start.
Rated 15 Mar 2010
Rated 12 Dec 2006
67
19th
Enjoyable, but doesn't make much sense. It's complicated for no reason than to be complicated and not as deep as it thinks it is.
Rated 12 Dec 2006
Rated 04 Jan 2010
72
55th
visually attractive, complex editing, nice casting. lots of clichés and references to other films such as pi, fight club, even matrix but not as appealing as them.
Rated 04 Jan 2010
Rated 02 Dec 2009
59
38th
It's a Ritchie movie to the core but this one didn't click.
Rated 02 Dec 2009
Rated 04 Sep 2009
50
1st
madonna effect! this movie is just a shame for guy ritchie
Rated 04 Sep 2009
Rated 23 Aug 2009
30
19th
Good work from the cast, but it would be better if there were at least a chance of understanding the movie. Yes, even if you have to rewatch it multiple times, and think and ponder. But it's just a mindfuck.
Rated 23 Aug 2009
Rated 01 Aug 2009
72
42nd
What a mind trip. I was lost half the movie, it was confusing at times even though I knew what was happening, I think..let me think for a sec...OK, I wasn't sure I'll admit, lol. I am a fan of J.Statham so that was one reason I got it. Not sure what I was expecting starting it, but it was a fun watch.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
Rated 02 Jul 2009
40
8th
I like Guy Ritchie. Not the guy, his movies of course. But I think he should stick to what he knows best: Funny British Crime movies. When he doesn't, the result becomes as a nightmare.
Rated 02 Jul 2009
Rated 31 May 2009
14
12th
Jason is in jail then just think of the most impossible thing that could possibly happen (isn't that a contradiction) and that's the plot.
Rated 31 May 2009
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