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 My husband is a huge fan of Snatch, so when he heard that Guy Ritchie (also known as Madonna’s hubby) had made a new film starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent pastore, and André Benjamin (also known as André 3000 from the rap group Outkast), we had to rent it right away.  However, Revolver was something else entirely.  It felt like I was watching a movie in which I never had my footing as well as I should.  I understood the basics of what was going on around me, but I was so concentrated on trying to logically solve the puzzle of what was going on that I kept getting knocked off-balance by the film’s underlying message and tone.

You might think this sense of unease might make me not like a picture as much, but that is untrue.  The various angles that were used during filming and the vibrant contrasts of colors and themes really helped to pull me into the film’s world.  There is even a short segment of the film in which the action switches back and forth from animation to live action.  I realized while watching this that the exaggerated movements found in the animation really helped me to feel the emotion of the characters on the screen in a way that I wasn’t able to connect with them in a traditional film setting.

My favorite scene of the entire movie was when Mark Strong, who plays the sharp-shooter, Sorter, decides to turn on his own and hunts the men through an apartment building.  The offset angles and random room movements where he would randomly move or pop up really set apart the scene and helped to heighten the tension of the moment in such a way that you can actually “see” how off-kilter his world has become.  I am a fan of using art in multiple facets to express your creativity and to help your characters become something more than one-dimensional drones.

So, my recommendation is a definite plus.  I enjoyed it far, far more than I expected to, and that is always something.