
After seven years in solitary, Jake Green is released from prison. In the next two years, he amasses a lot of money by gambling. He's ready to seek his revenge on Dorothy (Mr. D) Macha, a violence-prone casino owner who sent Jake to prison. He humiliates Macha in front of Macha's lieutenants, leaves, and keels over. Doctors tell him he has a rare disease and will die in three days; Macha also puts a hit out on him. Loan sharks, Zack and Avi, demand Jake's cash and complete fe... (Full plot summary below)
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After seven years in solitary, Jake Green is released from prison. In the next two years, he amasses a lot of money by gambling. He's ready to seek his revenge on Dorothy (Mr. D) Macha, a violence-prone casino owner who sent Jake to prison. He humiliates Macha in front of Macha's lieutenants, leaves, and keels over. Doctors tell him he has a rare disease and will die in three days; Macha also puts a hit out on him. Loan sharks, Zack and Avi, demand Jake's cash and complete fealty in return for protection. Jake complies, and through narration and flashbacks, we watch him through at least three days of schemes, danger, and redemption. Who is his greatest enemy?
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| New York PostKyle SmithGood grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention. |
| Chicago TribuneSid SmithPart gambling heist, part graphic novel, part metaphysical mumbo jumbo, Revolver is a mess of many colors, few of them satisfying. |
| The New York TimesMatt Zoller SeitzBy turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldDefinitely 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. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonIts main purpose -- and no, you are not experiencing ocular breakdown -- is spiritual. |
| Entertainment WeeklyGregory KirschlingThe movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanA 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 InquirerSteven ReaGuy 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. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonIt'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 TimesKevin CrustThe result is a film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end. |