Revolver

From Jail to Dreamland, With Its Sadist in Briefs

By turns clever, impassioned, incoherent and silly, “Revolver,” the fourth film by the writer and director Guy Ritchie, is a macho parable of a fallen man striving for grace.
Mr. Ritchie’s regular collaborator, Jason Statham, stars as Jake Green, an ex-convict seeking revenge against a malevolent casino owner named Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta). Green hopes to bankrupt Macha by means of “the formula,” an equation he devised in the joint.
After Green embarrasses Macha on his own gaming floor, Macha orders him whacked but is foiled by a mysterious loan shark named Zack (Vincent Pastore of “The Sopranos”). [...]

di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (3127 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 dicembre 2007