Revolver (2005)
Revolver is a 2005 action thriller film co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin. The film centres on a revenge-seeking confidence trickster whose weapon is a universal formula that guarantees victory to its user, when applied to any game or confidence trick. This is the fourth feature film by Ritchie and his third to centre on crime and professional criminals. It was released in UK theatres on 22 September 2005. It performed poorly at the box office and received negative reviews. A reworked version was released to a limited number of US theatres on 7 December 2007.
Plot
There are two different versions of Revolver. This plot synopsis is for Ritchie’s preferred Directors Cut. In an unidentified city, cockney gangster and gambler Jake Green (Jason Statham) is released from prison after a seven year stretch in solitary confinement for an unspecified crime. Because of this, Jake developed claustrophobia: he becomes incredibly anxious in tight spaces and despises riding in elevators. Two years later, Jake and his brother Billy (Andrew Howard) travel to a casino owned by Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), a gang boss involved in illegal gambling all over the city. Macha is responsible for ordering Green to commit the crime that resulted in his prison sentence.
Though Billy is reluctant, the brothers have arrived to collect the debt that Green believes the gangster owes them. Macha promptly calls them up to a private area of his casino where a high rollers’ game is taking place. Jake bets a fortune on a chip toss with one of the table’s players, and loses. Manipulating Macha into a sense of false security, he makes the same bet with him, but this time, he wins. Humiliated, Macha orders his right-hand man, Paul (Terence Maynard) to have Jake murdered.
As Jake and his brothers leave the casino, a man (Vincent Pastore) hands Jake a card and tells him that he can help him. Jake’s phobia forces him to take the stairs. In the stairwell, Jake looks at the card and collapses, falling down the stairs. The card is revealed to read “Take the Elevator”. Jake is rushed to the hospital. The doctors report that they don’t know why he fainted, but inform him they will have the results in a few days. Later Jake arrives home, without Billy, where Macha’s assassin Sorter (Mark Strong) is waiting for him.
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Cast:
- Jason Statham as Jake Green
- Ray Liotta as Dorothy Macha
- Vincent Pastore as Zach
- André Benjamin as Avi
- Mark Strong as Sorter
- Tom Wu as Lord John
- Terence Maynard as French Paul Â
- Andrew Howard as Billy
- Francesca Annis as Lily Walker
- Anjela Lauren Smith as Doreen
- Elana Binysh as Rachel