Critics panned Guy Ritchie's new gangster flick, so how did the PRs for Revolver find a Sun quote saying the director was "back to his best"? James Silver uncovers a cosy deal
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The critical reaction to Guy Ritchie's Kabbalah-infused gangster flick Revolver has been rather like watching a car crash in slo-mo. The film is, by common consent, not merely a turkey, but a squawking, gobbling prize Christmas clunker of a bird. For the Daily Mail's Christopher Tookey, "Ritchie tells his story so incoherently and indolently - and with such an alienating air of self-congratulation - that Revolver becomes first annoying, then exasperating, and eventually unbearable." In the Daily Mirror, David Edwards dismissed the picture as "so incredibly, absurdly, breathtakingly awful, I wanted to buy a revolver so I could shoot the projectionist before turning the gun on myself." You get the general idea.
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OUCH!
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Saturday, October 08, 2005
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