Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Labyrinthine
- Violence
- Moderate
- paranoid
- sardonic
- brooding
- late night viewing
- rewatch night
What critics said
Critics broadly regarded the film as an incoherent and pretentious crime thriller whose philosophical ambitions and convoluted plotting overwhelm its genre mechanics.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Jake's schemes, narration, flashbacks, and uncertainty about his greatest enemy turn the revenge story into a puzzle about perception and identity.
The plot repeatedly redirects Jake's revenge, money, and survival struggle toward the question of whether his deepest enemy is internal.
Pinstripe suits, driving caps, casino spaces, graphic violence, and overtly constructed narration give the underworld a glossy, heightened appearance.
The story uses flashbacks, narration, a wrong diagnosis, foretelling, and shifting explanations to make its schemes difficult to interpret on a first viewing.
Films like Revolver, and why
snatch
shares convoluted crime plotting, stylized underworld figures, fast verbal exchanges, and philosophical self-confrontation
donnie darko
shares a psychologically destabilizing crime narrative, unreliable-seeming revelations, and demanding nonlinear storytelling
the gambler
shares gambling, criminal power struggles, morally compromised protagonists, and a bleak neo-noir atmosphere
the usual suspects
shares criminal manipulation, identity games, and an opaque thriller structure centered on hidden motives
Movie Details
- Director
- Guy Ritchie
- Release Date
- 2005-09-11
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (1630)
Cast
- Jason Statham
- Ray Liotta
- Vincent Pastore
- André 3000
- Terence Maynard
- Andrew Howard
- Mark Strong
- Francesca Annis
- Mem Ferda
- Anjela Lauren Smith
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Howdy Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Revolver about?
- A recently released gambler wages an increasingly surreal revenge campaign against a casino kingpin while confronting an enemy that may be closer than he thinks.
- What is Revolver like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Revolver as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as labyrinthine.
- Is Revolver violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Revolver as moderate.
- What did critics think of Revolver?
- Critics broadly regarded the film as an incoherent and pretentious crime thriller whose philosophical ambitions and convoluted plotting overwhelm its genre mechanics.
- Which films are like Revolver?
- Films with a similar feel include snatch, donnie darko, the gambler, and the usual suspects.
- How long is Revolver?
- Revolver runs 111 minutes.
- Where can I watch Revolver?
- In United States, Revolver streams on Howdy Amazon Channel.
