Revolver
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: December 7, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
15
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63
New York PostKyle Smith
Good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Part gambling heist, part graphic novel, part metaphysical mumbo jumbo, Revolver is a mess of many colors, few of them satisfying. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Definitely 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. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirschling
The movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible. Read full review
40
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Its main purpose -- and no, you are not experiencing ocular breakdown -- is spiritual. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
A few scenes are stylish enough to amuse, but they all add up to nothing - leaving you ten bucks short and feeling like a sucker. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Guy 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. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The film's pretentious style and fractured storytelling preclude any audience involvement in the coy melodrama. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
It'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. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
The result is a film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Surprise of surprises, Revolver turns out to be worse than "Swept Away" - and not just by a little bit. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Ritchie has said that it takes several viewings to fully understand what's going on in Revolver, but once will be enough for most to agree to take his word for it. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Ritchie wraps this folderol in cinematic razzle-dazzle, including animated sequences, reverse motion, trompe l'oeil production design and tricky lighting. But it's still claptrap. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The problem with Revolver is that it is Ritchie's first attempt at a ''serious'' look at the underworld, but the result is so pretentious and muddled it's almost a little embarrassing. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
The movie's onslaught of psychobabble is the annoyance most likely to ruin your evening. Imagine getting stuck on a ski lift with Dr. Phil for nearly two hours. Read full review
20
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. Read full review
12
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. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
This 2005 feature offered me my first taste of Guy Ritchie's macho-centric artiness, and I hope it's my last. Read full review
8
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Although it contains crime and absurdity, it's not thrilling or funny and the title doesn't refer to a gun. Read full review
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