the top post about this movie is absolutely correct. i saw this film a year and a half ago at the Toronto international film festival. this is something i wrote right after coming back home from the screening: *****revolver... what can i say about revolver... i just got back from the film and i'm still digesting it... there weren't any credits at the end so that might indicate that the film is not in its completed stage. it might be altered when it is released. first off you should know that i hate guy Ritchie, and not just for every single movie the guy has made, but because his attitude regarding the films he makes is insulting. i loathed lock stock when i saw it in the theaters, hated snatch even though i liked some of the actors, and laughed my head off at swept away.
that said, i started really liking the first 45 mins of revolver. i was really surprised how much i was into it. then it went bad, bad in that guy Ritchie kind of way. everyone knows how much credit he has to give Tarantino. if it weren't for reservoir dogs and pulp fiction this guy would be nothing. well guess what guys, Ritchie has put a Japanese animated bit into revolver. that's right, it's blatant now. he loved kill bill so much that he included an animated sequence in his new film. how he looks himself in the mirror in the morning and calls himself an artist amazes me. it's not like Tarantino doesn't owe a lot from other film makers. it's just that Ritchie would like you to think he was the first one doing it. you know one of those jerks that talks like it's the first time something has been thought of, in regard to everything they say. Ritchie is that jerk who started making films.
from that point in the film, the plot and story really spiral off into nothingness. Ritchie has managed to mimic Tarantino, and fincher (fight club), and bits of o'Russell's huckabees and a couple others while not having any heart or soul in the project. so after the next 45 or so mins i was hating the film.
then a funny thing happened, i really started liking the film again. for the remainder of the film i was once again having a great time. until the ending... it end prematurely, and not in a good way, in the kinda way that you sense the pretense oozing from the film maker. obviously Ritchie wanted to leave the audience bewildered, bewildered to his intellect. oh the irony. when the screen went black and i was walking out of the theater with a friend of mine, and i looked over to Ritchie and Madonna, i thought... naw, i hate this guy and his crap sub par films. he tricked me into thinking there was depth to this film. there isn't. it is very well shot, and the acting is great, but it is essentially a film about nothing that puts on a front of depth.
to let you know how pretentious this guy is, before the screening he started off by saying how intelligent the Toronto audience is. and that since we're intelligent, we have to pay close attention because his film is like a game of chess. in that you have to keep up with it or you'll get lost in it's utter brilliance. self-righteous patronizing jerk. "i'm a genius and you have to try to understand me. it's hard kids, but you can do it. i have faith in you." (he didn't actually say this with words exactly, it's just the tone of the intent)
By the way, the chess reference you'll understand once you see the film.
funny side story, i saw an interview with Ritchie and his cinematographer a while back and they were talking and playing chess while the interviewer was off to the side (they never looked up from the chess board because they were intellectual or something...). they were talking about snatch like it was citizen Kane or something. it was pathetic and hilarious.
anyway, judge revolver for yourselves but it gets a huge thumbs down from me. there are some great sequences and great acting but it doesn't amount to anything.*******
that said, i started really liking the first 45 mins of revolver. i was really surprised how much i was into it. then it went bad, bad in that guy Ritchie kind of way. everyone knows how much credit he has to give Tarantino. if it weren't for reservoir dogs and pulp fiction this guy would be nothing. well guess what guys, Ritchie has put a Japanese animated bit into revolver. that's right, it's blatant now. he loved kill bill so much that he included an animated sequence in his new film. how he looks himself in the mirror in the morning and calls himself an artist amazes me. it's not like Tarantino doesn't owe a lot from other film makers. it's just that Ritchie would like you to think he was the first one doing it. you know one of those jerks that talks like it's the first time something has been thought of, in regard to everything they say. Ritchie is that jerk who started making films.
from that point in the film, the plot and story really spiral off into nothingness. Ritchie has managed to mimic Tarantino, and fincher (fight club), and bits of o'Russell's huckabees and a couple others while not having any heart or soul in the project. so after the next 45 or so mins i was hating the film.
then a funny thing happened, i really started liking the film again. for the remainder of the film i was once again having a great time. until the ending... it end prematurely, and not in a good way, in the kinda way that you sense the pretense oozing from the film maker. obviously Ritchie wanted to leave the audience bewildered, bewildered to his intellect. oh the irony. when the screen went black and i was walking out of the theater with a friend of mine, and i looked over to Ritchie and Madonna, i thought... naw, i hate this guy and his crap sub par films. he tricked me into thinking there was depth to this film. there isn't. it is very well shot, and the acting is great, but it is essentially a film about nothing that puts on a front of depth.
to let you know how pretentious this guy is, before the screening he started off by saying how intelligent the Toronto audience is. and that since we're intelligent, we have to pay close attention because his film is like a game of chess. in that you have to keep up with it or you'll get lost in it's utter brilliance. self-righteous patronizing jerk. "i'm a genius and you have to try to understand me. it's hard kids, but you can do it. i have faith in you." (he didn't actually say this with words exactly, it's just the tone of the intent)
By the way, the chess reference you'll understand once you see the film.
funny side story, i saw an interview with Ritchie and his cinematographer a while back and they were talking and playing chess while the interviewer was off to the side (they never looked up from the chess board because they were intellectual or something...). they were talking about snatch like it was citizen Kane or something. it was pathetic and hilarious.
anyway, judge revolver for yourselves but it gets a huge thumbs down from me. there are some great sequences and great acting but it doesn't amount to anything.*******
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