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Revolver

Your mind will not accept a game this big.

2005 · 1h 51m · R Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Guy Ritchie

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Overview

Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, Billy. Invited to a private game, Jake is in fear of losing his life.

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Rotten

[A]bout as compelling a brief for Kabbalah as Battlefield Earth was for scientology.

Christopher Orr, The New Republic
Rotten

Not the disaster described in the British press but unlikely to restore Ritchie's luster.

Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
Rotten

The plot isn't intellectually challenging as much as it is confusing, and yet the big twist is completely telegraphed. Ritchie has created a movie that is patronizingly obvious one minute and impenetrable the next.

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

It's an irritating, repetitive and pretentious psycho-metaphysical con-job that's ultimately about transcending the ego, and it owes a significant debt to the 1960s The Prisoner TV show -- but isn't nearly in the same artistic league.

Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
Rotten

Guy Ritchie's greasy little noir Revolver is good grindhouse fun until a last act that's like a meeting of a psychoanalysts' convention.

Kyle Smith, New York Post

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