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Revolver Review

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1.0

Dave White Profile

… a great big swirly bowl of nothing making sense. Read full review

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  • 2.0
    25

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally unfavorable reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 12

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 20

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

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

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  • 30

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

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

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  • 42

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly

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

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly.

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4

A Trip into Yourself by kevwells
Interesting effort from the director of Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. However, the film is an enormous departure for Guy Ritchie and an ambitious one at that. Don't go expecting to completely understand the film---it will escape you. This movie is layered and nuanced. A twisted tale of self discover amid the madness and paranoia of organized crime.I'm on my way to see it again. Not to be missed but don't expect a wise cracking, rollicking good time. Deep, dark and mysterious are these waters.

1

Revolver Ruins by Annette Wagner
What a cruel way to be paid back for taking the day off work. If it weren't for the meal that followed, Revolver would have done a very fine job of ruining my day. A very fine job indeed. What a senseless run of ridiculous notions...so much so... that you feel as if you are a crazy person for sitting there trying to figure out what point the flick is trying to make and what ludicrous direction it is heading. Once the pain is finally over, you realize you may not be crazy but certainly a fool for staying to the end...the end filled with all it's emptiness. I'm not sure what kind of drugs Guy Ritchie was on while writing this loser but I think I'll need a strong dose of it before I find myself considering another one of his not-so-masterpieces. Check please.

5

by JagggerBomb

4

by newyorkbadass

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