Revolver (2007) Critic Reviews
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By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly.Read the full review
The movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible.Read the full review
Its main purpose -- and no, you are not experiencing ocular breakdown -- is spiritual.Read the full review
The result is a film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end.Read the full review
The film's pretentious style and fractured storytelling preclude any audience involvement in the coy melodrama.Read the full review
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 the full review
The latest Guy Ritchie shoot-em-up, is a joke. You laugh with it but mostly at it.Read the full review
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 the full review
Surprise of surprises, Revolver turns out to be worse than "Swept Away" - and not just by a little bit.Read the full review
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 the full review
