Metacritic Movie Ratings
Revolver Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly.

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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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• 30

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin 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 ReporterKirk Honeycutt

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

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• 20

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd 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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• 12

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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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