Revolver (2005)

Old movie, short entry: "Revolver" is a movie by Guy Ritchie that I missed when was originally released, and which I reminded of after watching "King Arthur". The action is set in Ritchie's favorite context = a local mob story (wherever that might be), although here we're dealing with something quite different from the more known "Snatch", "Lock, Stock...." and even quite apart from "Sherlock Holmes". Jake Green (Jason Statham) gets out of jail after 7 years of solitary confinement due to a gang boss, Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta). With no delay he tries to even up with him assembling a scheme of squeezing money out of some of the gang members. The story is highly-elaborated and you'll get pieces of it as the movie progresses. Although things are moving relatively smoothly up to half of it, the part that drags it down is what's happening after when the action takes a bizarre turn, which probably rivals with "Night Watch" from the previous entry. We're moving from a thriller to a sort of psychoanalysis set between a "Fight Club" and "The Usual Suspects". It's probably a movie that requires more than one watch to get everything from the scenes that are out of normal. All this won't be a problem if 1) the subject wouldn't get so tangled that an explanation you get for something contradicts something else 2) you wouldn't see an ending twist coming from a mile away and 3) (subjectively) the movie wouldn't appear to be more pretentious than it is. Anyway, it's not a film to completely ignore, at least for side stuff as probably the only movie where I've seen Jason Statham acting a scene that could earn a nomination for a "best actor award".

Rating: 2.5 out of 5