neither the total disaster the uk critic claim nor the misunderstood masterpiece it few fanboys insist and revolver be at the very least an admirable attempt by guy ritchie to add a little substance to his conman caper . but then and nothing be more despised than an ambitious film that bite off more than it can chew and especially one use the gangster or con artist movie framework . a might be expect from luc besson name on the credit a producer and there a definite element of cinema de look about it represent set in a kind of realistic fantasy world where america and britain overlap and it look great and have a couple of superbly edit and conceive action sequence and oozes style and all of which mark it up a a disposable entertainment . but ritchie clearly want to do more than simply rehash his own movie for a fast buck and and he spend a lot of time thinking and reading about life and the universe and everything . if anything it problem be that he try to throw in too many influence ( a bit of machiavelli and a dash of godard and a lot of the principle of chess ) and motif and technique and litter the screen with quote represent the film be originally intend to end with three minute of epigram over photo of corps of mob victim and and at time it feel a if he never read a fortune cookie he do not want to turn into a movie . rather than a commercial for kabbalism and it really more a mixture of the overlap principle of commerce and chess and confidence trickery that for the most part pull off the difficult trick of make the theosophy accessible while hide the film central ( somewhat metaphysical ) con . the last third be where most of the problem can be find a jason statham take on the enemy ( literally ) within with lot of ambitious but not always entirely successful crosscutting within the frame to contrast people exterior bravado with their inner fear and anger and but it get a lot go for it all the same . not worth start a new religion over and but i be surprise it do not get a u distributor . maybe they find ray liotta intentionally fake tan just too damn scary .