Revolver (film)

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Revolver is a 2005 crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. It stars Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, and André 3000.

[edit] Plot

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Jake Green is a hotshot con artist, rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years that he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who plays badly but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult him. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of loan sharks, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down.

[edit] Critics' reactions

The film was "panned" by critics: for example, it has been criticised on grounds of pretension and having an over-complicated plot by critics such as Mark Kermode. Reviews were so poor in the UK that The Guardian ran a story ("How to flog a turkey" [1]) on how the distributor was able to attribute a quote to The Sun saying that the director was "back to his best". (The quote came from a section of the Sun Online website created by a PR agency on behalf of the film's distributors.)