COMPLICATED gangster films that leave you thinking, 'what was all that about', is not my idea of entertainment.
Particularly when you can see the twist coming at the end rather like a juggernaut with its lights flashing and horn blaring.
Revolver has its good points, but unfortunately it has far too many bad points. The complications are not subtle or deep or thought provoking, they're just big holes left unexplained.
There are too many scenes, like when one of the characters, Sorter, goes on a killing spree, that just seem to have been included as an indulgence to Ritchie. The whole film is formulaic; in fact you could almost see the numbers he was painting by when he made it. The film follows a silent gritty anti-hero, Jake Green, released from jail with a score to settle, but he gets drawn inadvertently into a world of corruption. In Revolver, only small coincidences and chances stop you from crossing over from life to death - if only those coincidences had conspired against this film being released.
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