Revolver (2005)

Surely those reviewers telling us to watch this movie at least three times before writing a review realize that this means the movie isn't getting its message across? It is not a case of the viewer being 'lazy', but that this movie is confusing. This movie sounded interesting, and initially looked interesting, but then when I started watching it, small cracks started appearing, growing larger and larger, until finally the whole movie just collapsed into a heap. That was around the 30 minute stage, when suddenly I realized that this movie must have been written by the same person that directed it.Looking up Revolver on IMDb quickly revealed that I was correct. Once again, the failure to have someone else carry out the checks and balances ensured that the movie would lack consistency and at times be confusing.Like when our domineering bad guy suddenly appears in a church like scene and acts subserviently to an older lady who is surrounded by a lot of younger ladies. Does that sound confusing? Well it certainly was. I'm sure the writer had a clear idea in his head, but it needed a (different person) director to point out that at times there wasn't enough information provided to the audience. Like when our hero suddenly falls down after reading a business card. Was the card coated in poison? Was he having a type of epileptic fit?Such a shame that once again all that money and acting talent was wasted by a bad script, and worse directing.

I'll give it a 9 because of all the ways possible to interpret and perceive the events and meanings in this movie. I do not know why but what I see in this movie is 2 self-educated genii exploiting entire mob gangs governed by morons and self-proclaimed leaders of the mob world. Jack Green in this story is just a pieces moved on real life chess board. It was quite clear that Avi and Zach are Jack's neighbors next door from solitary prison cells. They knew everything about him, stole everything he had when they escaped prison and did whatever they do to stay in a shadow and control environment without being notices. When Jack leaves prison, makes money and gets targeted by the owner the casino they magically appear and offer help. Somehow they now every step taken by the casino owner and gets few moves ahead of everyone. Intercepts assassination of Jack and then convinces him that he has got a disease so he loses common sense and stops thinking rationally. He gives them all of his money which are lent to a bunch of desperate people who think that they will be able to give the money back but obviously they can't. So they end up in Loan Shark pocket enslaving themselves. So Jack is now one their puppets, their assets. Later on these 2 genii carry on manipulation by creating the image of so called Mr Gold which becomes a real real big boss in the eyes of Macha. So Macha tries everything to satisfy this mysterious figure. He fears to turn down the mythical being so much that he decides to pay ridiculous money for his competition in exchange for white powdery stuff. Well, we all saw how well it went. And it would be naive to disregard mastermind power of these to criminals who know where when and how enemy is going to act in a certain situation. They are the ones behind everyone's misfortune including Mr Green's. The real big bosses are smoking cigars in a Jacuzzi when stupid gangsters chase the wrong guy. Literally, the whole story is an ingenious design of Mr black magic a.k.a. Avi and put into practice by the practical engineer Zach. If you do the math, Avi and Zach do not exist in the eyes of neither Macha, nor Lord John. All the blame is pushed onto Mr Green since he was scamming everyone before no one would expect anyone else to be involved. These 2 get the money for the powder and the powder itself. The gang war starts, assassination of Macha fails so they make Mr Green to hand in Lord John's powder to Macha himself. In this way Macha is certainly dead since the owners of Lord John will not forget that Macha stole their powder and brought a shame to clan. So Macha understood that is f*ked and blew his head off because bullet in his brain is much better than an upcoming bad fate from Asian mafia.You might try to see some Ego issues in MrGreen's personality but the only one who had an enormous Ego was Macha. Look at his palace, items at home, sick attention to perfection - he takes full body tan in a huge room, criticizes a professional sniper, really??? Anyway all of these mobsters think they are in control but the real control comes from 2 unnoticed puppeteers.

As others have stated, it might not be the best of its kind (movies with many layers that are hard to read or even to fully comprehend with just one watch), but it's still more than solid. If you don't like a movie that is not just entertainment (which is OK), there are other places to look for that. Guy Ritchie did "Lock, Stock ..." and "Snatch" and other movies who are more on the entertainment side, but with this, he tried (and imo succeeded) to add depth to that.And Mr. Ritchie knows what the story is (even if some viewers might think and feel different), which is clear in his audio commentary for the movie. What will not become too clear, is what the movie is about. That is a personal experience and you yourself might be the your enemy - to liking this movie ...

So I've seen this review where the guy says he saw the movie three times before he understood and realised how good the movie was and i need to say this, i could have not have agreed more.At first i was gonna rate this movie 7 or 8 because i like it but i thought i understood it, the fight and struggle, that wasn't it. Not until the third time of this movie did i understand the real deep meaning of the movie. People who have only seen this ones and rate it 5 or 6 don't read or trust there review. It's important that you do not read other lower scored review because i believe this movie deserve a higher score with its' philosophical and actually easy message all you need to do is work hard to understand, if you didn't, come back again and watch it. Watch the end credits and the PhD talk about there comment about the ego and connect it to the movie so you truly understand, for those who are to lazy I'm gonna try to explain it under this limited circumstancesThe voice in your head about when fighting, arguing, thinking and getting in a conflict when your brain is going through that phase you start thinking carefully how to deal with that situation but during your life you have been going through you brain adopts different types of thinking easily. That is your ego, when you think its you who decides different things its your ego who jumps in who tells you its okay, without any reason at all why to do it. So in my understanding to fully take control of yourself you need to adopt your own way of thinking. Great movie 10/10