Written and directed by Guy Ritchie
Cast:
Jason Statham …. Jake Green
Ray Liotta …. Macha
André Benjamin …. Avi (as André 3000)
Vincent Pastore …. Zach
Basic plot: Well… actually there is no point in doing this.
This film is a complete and utter mess.
Seriously.
this film is a mess. a complete mess. It can’t decide what the hell it wants to be.
It starts off with a plot. Jason Statham has just been released from prison. He then spends 2 years earning the money to get back at the person who set him up (Ray Liotta). Which he does. With a coin toss. (Cos winning that isn’t down to chance, but a skill.)
He then collapses and finds out that he only has three days to live. He is then “befriended” by two loan sharks (Benjamin and Pastore), helping them out and giving them all his money. There are crosses and double crosses and sod it, I give up.
I haven’t actually seen Swept Away, but I refuse to believe it is this bad. According to Rotchie, those who are intellegent enough will understand the film. I went to see it with some film students (and lecturers) and none of them could understand it.
And there is an animated sequence apropose of sod all except, perhaps, that Ritchie had been told that “all the kids like animated sequences”. There is very little in the sequence that neccesitated making it like that.
Look at the cast. Statham is a good actor. Benjamin is starting to prove himself. But it is Liotta who is really slumming it. And it shows. His acting in this film reminds me of someone who is being forced to do it or their pet dies.
Maybe it is meant to be a film you need to see more than once to understand. Maybe that’s what Ritchie was aiming for. It’s not that unusual nowadays. Look at Donnie Darko or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind for example. The difference is that where I will happily watch either of those films again, only under pain of death will I suffer through Revolver a second time.
My advice about watching this film: don’t. If you do want to, however, (maybe you are a massochist), a word of advice. There are no end credits.
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