Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.
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- (as Andre Benjamin)
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- (as Terrence Maynard)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe letters in "revolver" match the arrangement of chess pieces on the first and last rank of the chessboard.
- GoofsWhen Mr. Green delivers the first bag of cash, the notes are clearly denominated 'TWELVE' in the center of the their reverse. US dollar bills have the denomination at the bottom.
- Quotes
Jake Green: There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. "Fear or revere me, but please think I'm special." We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The "hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah." Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening or end credits. Only the distributor (EuropaCorp) and the production company (Revolver Pictures Ltd) are credited at all. The ending has several minutes of blank screen and piano music. This seems to be a deliberate choice by the director to reinforce the movie's philosophical themes.
- Alternate versionsThere's a new 2007 Director's Cut DVD release of the movie in Scandinavia which is approx. 15 min shorter (101 min) than the normal cut (115 min).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Brows Held High: Revolver: Well, You Tried (2017)
- SoundtracksRequiem
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as W. A. Mozart).
Conducted by Zdenek Kosler (as Z. Kosler).
Performed by Slovak Philharmonic Chorus (as Slovak Philharmonic Choir) and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kapagama/Naxos - HNH International.
The film's biggest flaw in earning wide support is how unexpectedly complex it is. This has been described many times as as making the film "inaccessible" to the viewer. The film's chronology is relatively non-linear and the characters are used as not only a means of storytelling but as a device for showing us the subtle (or not so subtle) hints of bias we give things as we commit them to memory, IE. Ray Liotta's character brandishing a gun saying the words "fear me" is portrayed as both tragically pathetic (from Statham's POV) or interrogating and bold (from Liotta's POV). This is but one example of Ritchie's far more mature approach he has taken to film-making with Revolver, we have a storyline which is pretty archetypal (the strong but silent gritty anti-hero gets released from jail with a score to settle but gets drawn inadvertently into a world of corruption... I mean it's paint by numbers film noir here guys, all the way down to the vague poetic choice of diction and the gritty voice-overs) but then Guy has taken this framework to make a number of extremely philosophical and complex points.
Take the scene where Jason Statham's character runs afoul of a car. This throwaway sequence could have been emitted from the film and made no difference to the story whatsoever... but Ritchie is making point about how such little chance happenings such as receiving a phone call can make the difference between life and death.
So the final act of the movie is pretty mind boggling, I'd be taking the p*ss if I said I didn't spend the last 20 minutes or so of the film turning to my date going "uh... wtf?"... but that is the shoddiest reason to disregard a piece of art. It is far too easy to dislike something because you find it hard to understand. And even easier to say "well nobody else seemed to understand it so it must be a real turd of a film!". In my humble opinion, Revolver is a stylish, complex and mature piece of modern art which should be greeted with the same manner we would give the work of the Saatchi Brothers. If we choose this opportunity to collectively say "Ah sh*t, I wanted a film about a load of bleeding' cockney gangsters in-nit loll... Guy Ritchie is a tit!" then the day will come when film-makers are allowed only to make that which is expected of them by shallow, crappy people. Just because Guy made a name for himself with funny, cheeky cockney romps, doesn't mean he can't be deep without being "pretentious". Funny people can be thoughtful too.
- texas_phil
- Sep 23, 2005
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- Súng Lục
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- Gross US & Canada
- $84,738
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $41,820
- Dec 9, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $7,221,558
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1