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Saw this today....Very Odd!
Looking forward to the Shiznit review.
Land of the Dead tomorrow....Can't wait!
Looking forward to the Shiznit review.
Land of the Dead tomorrow....Can't wait!
It isn't as bad as all the reviewers are saying. Partly cos I went into it expecting the worst film ever. It IS really pretentious and the storyline IS really predictable. It would've been a lot better if they had cut a few scenes out and made the characters less odd.
As for action, the film is quite good. One character (an assassin who never misses) is exceptionally cool and there is a scene in a restaurant with Ray Liotta that is brilliant. I mean it has a few really stinky scenes and some other scenes that are really good, which is why it's quite hard to form an opinion on it.
Also, there are some funny moments. Definitely worse than Lock Stock and Snatch but I still think its worth seeing for a few quid.
As for action, the film is quite good. One character (an assassin who never misses) is exceptionally cool and there is a scene in a restaurant with Ray Liotta that is brilliant. I mean it has a few really stinky scenes and some other scenes that are really good, which is why it's quite hard to form an opinion on it.
Also, there are some funny moments. Definitely worse than Lock Stock and Snatch but I still think its worth seeing for a few quid.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> This is a must see.
Oh god, of course.
I'm not going to pay for the privilage though. I fell asleep during Stealth, I found it that awful. I was muntered though....
> This is a must see.
Oh god, of course.
I'm not going to pay for the privilage though. I fell asleep during Stealth, I found it that awful. I was muntered though....
Meh, I'll still watch it.
Every review I read makes me want to see it more.
You see, had it just been an average to good British gangster movie it would have paled in comparison to Layer Cake, which was pretty damn good. So it would have bored me. But with everybody saying it is so dire, I need to witness that for myself. I like crap movies. Seagal is Da Man. And Stealth was awesome in the awfulness stakes.
This is a must see.
You see, had it just been an average to good British gangster movie it would have paled in comparison to Layer Cake, which was pretty damn good. So it would have bored me. But with everybody saying it is so dire, I need to witness that for myself. I like crap movies. Seagal is Da Man. And Stealth was awesome in the awfulness stakes.
This is a must see.
Chr1s wrote:
> I'll probably watch it anyway, I loved Lock, Stock and Snatch.
Review from The Mirror: -
"It’s long been said that films have the power to inspire violence in the viewing public. Revolver is one such movie – a piece of work guaranteed to send you into a violent frenzy.
Guy Ritchie’s latest is so incredibly, absurdly, breathtakingly awful, I wanted to buy a revolver so I could shoot the projectionist before turning the gun on myself.
Sweet Jesus it’s bad. Lordy mama it’s terrible, by all things in heaven and on Earth it stinks.
Directed by the man who redefined the British crime flick with Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, the film begins with a villain called Jake (Jason Statham) released after a seven-year stint in chokey.
While locked up in solitary, he’s perfected a mathematical formula for winning big at the poker tables. After spending his first year of freedom amassing a fortune, he goes after the mobster (Ray Liotta) who left him to rot inside. So far, so good.
Then, about 15 minutes in, the film goes into meltdown as Jake is diagnosed with a terminal blood disease and then waylaid by two loansharks, played by Vincent Pastore and OutKast’s Andre Benjamin.
After giving them all his money (Sorry, but why?) the pair then take Jake on a bizarre philosophical journey where shooting people is, like, a parable for something really deep and everyone plays chess a lot.
That’s right – chess. Forget the bucketloads of bullets you expect from Ritchie, here we get to see endless shots of Statham moving a rook around. What the?
It just doesn’t make any sense. NONE! Convoluted and confusing, even the cast look totally bewildered, and pity poor Statham as he reels off the most absurd lines ever written, stuff like: “Guilt is the only snake that can’t be charmed” and “You will always find a very good opponent in the last place you would look”.
Sorry, Guy, that crap might make sense down the Kabbalah centre with Madonna but it doesn’t here.
Liotta doesn’t have much more luck, gamely spouting the same sort of claptrap while swanning around in a pair of leopardskin undies. Oh, and his character’s first name is Dorothy.
Revolver sure looks the part, with lots of flashing lights, swanky casinos and slick mobsters but no amount of Vegas cool can disguise the dead-on-arrival script. Pretentious and ploddy, it crawls over the craggy rockface of a plot before quickly collapsing into total incoherence.
In the past year I’ve had to sit through some movies that stunk to high heaven. Alexander. Last Days. Bewitched. House Of Wax. This beats them all hands down in the awfulness stakes.
It’s quite simply a crime against cinema."
Now, I'm not a follower of reviewers, but when each and every one tells us that this movie is an utter, and total, difficult to breath as it's head's stuck so far up it's own ass crime against cinema, there must be a reason.
I predict "you didn't get it" from idiots who think they're more intellegent.
"Neither did you, don't try to pretend otherwise" will be the reply.
> I'll probably watch it anyway, I loved Lock, Stock and Snatch.
Review from The Mirror: -
"It’s long been said that films have the power to inspire violence in the viewing public. Revolver is one such movie – a piece of work guaranteed to send you into a violent frenzy.
Guy Ritchie’s latest is so incredibly, absurdly, breathtakingly awful, I wanted to buy a revolver so I could shoot the projectionist before turning the gun on myself.
Sweet Jesus it’s bad. Lordy mama it’s terrible, by all things in heaven and on Earth it stinks.
Directed by the man who redefined the British crime flick with Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, the film begins with a villain called Jake (Jason Statham) released after a seven-year stint in chokey.
While locked up in solitary, he’s perfected a mathematical formula for winning big at the poker tables. After spending his first year of freedom amassing a fortune, he goes after the mobster (Ray Liotta) who left him to rot inside. So far, so good.
Then, about 15 minutes in, the film goes into meltdown as Jake is diagnosed with a terminal blood disease and then waylaid by two loansharks, played by Vincent Pastore and OutKast’s Andre Benjamin.
After giving them all his money (Sorry, but why?) the pair then take Jake on a bizarre philosophical journey where shooting people is, like, a parable for something really deep and everyone plays chess a lot.
That’s right – chess. Forget the bucketloads of bullets you expect from Ritchie, here we get to see endless shots of Statham moving a rook around. What the?
It just doesn’t make any sense. NONE! Convoluted and confusing, even the cast look totally bewildered, and pity poor Statham as he reels off the most absurd lines ever written, stuff like: “Guilt is the only snake that can’t be charmed” and “You will always find a very good opponent in the last place you would look”.
Sorry, Guy, that crap might make sense down the Kabbalah centre with Madonna but it doesn’t here.
Liotta doesn’t have much more luck, gamely spouting the same sort of claptrap while swanning around in a pair of leopardskin undies. Oh, and his character’s first name is Dorothy.
Revolver sure looks the part, with lots of flashing lights, swanky casinos and slick mobsters but no amount of Vegas cool can disguise the dead-on-arrival script. Pretentious and ploddy, it crawls over the craggy rockface of a plot before quickly collapsing into total incoherence.
In the past year I’ve had to sit through some movies that stunk to high heaven. Alexander. Last Days. Bewitched. House Of Wax. This beats them all hands down in the awfulness stakes.
It’s quite simply a crime against cinema."
Now, I'm not a follower of reviewers, but when each and every one tells us that this movie is an utter, and total, difficult to breath as it's head's stuck so far up it's own ass crime against cinema, there must be a reason.
I predict "you didn't get it" from idiots who think they're more intellegent.
"Neither did you, don't try to pretend otherwise" will be the reply.
I'll probably watch it anyway, I loved Lock, Stock and Snatch.
It's getting bad reviews all over the place. Isn't Madonna's Husband meant to be a good director? Why does he keep making the same film? I know you get genre-specialists, but British gangster movies will always be lame compared to the America/Italian/Asian equivalents.
Is Revolver any good?
It looks fantastic, but I've heard that it's not really anything special.
It looks fantastic, but I've heard that it's not really anything special.
Saw this today....Very Odd!
Looking forward to the Shiznit review.
Land of the Dead tomorrow....Can't wait!
Looking forward to the Shiznit review.
Land of the Dead tomorrow....Can't wait!