For 7 Years in Prison he Studied Quantum Physics And Learned How to Always Win in Any Game

Welcome back to Movie Recaps. . Today I will show you a crime,   thriller film from 2005, titled Revolver. . Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.  After seven years of confinement, cockney gambler , Jake Green is finally freed from prison. Two years   after his release, he and his brother Billy go . to one of the most important casinos in the area   with the intention of getting back the money they , are owed by the owner, crime boss Dorothy Macha.   Ignoring his bodyguard Paul's advice, he allows , Jake to join his private game. On the way up,   Jake hesitates to take the elevator because of his . claustrophobia, but the other bodyguards remind   him they must climb twenty floors, so he gives  in and takes the elevator while fighting a panic   attack. Jake's first bet is on a chip toss against , another player at the table, which he loses.   But this is on purpose: he's manipulating Macha  into a sense of false security, so when he makes   the same bet with him, he wins this time. Billy . and Jake hurry to leave the casino with their bags   full of cash, and on their way out, they're , stopped by Zach, who tells them they're in   danger and he can help them before giving Jake his  card. This time, Jake decides to take the stairs,   but before he can even go down one step, he passes . out and falls down as the card is revealed to say   "take the elevator". While Jake is rushed to the , hospital, Macha expresses his worries to Paul.   Jake must want bigger revenge after seven years  in jail, especially after the incident with his   sister-in-law, so Macha orders Paul to hire the . best hitman in the business to get rid of him.   At the hospital, Jake is told no cause for the  blackout could be found at a first glance, so   he should go home and rest while waiting for the , blood test results. Billy goes to his own house   while Jake takes the bodyguards for protection,  but all of them are shot as soon as they arrive.   The only reason why he manages to dodge is that  he finds a card on the floor that says "pick   this up", so he bends over to do exactly so. He  tries to escape in his car, but the driver is   shot too - luckily for him, Zach arrives just in , time to save him and take him away. The hitman,   Sorter, can't understand how he missed, since he . never misses, and theorizes someone must've tipped   Jake off. What he tells Macha when he scolds him  however, is that he missed because he had a bad   feeling. Meanwhile, Zach takes Jake to meet his . partner, Avi, who has somehow put his hands on   Jake's medical file. The test results are in: , Jake has a rare blood disease that will cause   his death within three days. The men offer Jake . their protection in exchange for two conditions,   which are not negotiable: he must give them . all their money, and do anything they ask for,   including answering any questions. They give him . three hours to decide, but Jaske leaves without   saying a word because he's convinced they're  trying to trick him. The results he gets at the   hospital are the same ones, but Jaskier once again , thinks the lab must've been paid by Zach and Avi,   so he gets a second opinion from his private . doctor, who also gives him the same prognosis.   After threatening him with his gun to make sure , he isn't also being paid, Jake admits he has no   choice and, after taking money from the bank, , goes back to accept the men's deal. As they go   out for a ride, Avi explains they're loan sharks,  and it'll be Jake's money that they'll be loaning.   After visiting their first client to drop the  money, Avi demands Jake to tell him all about   his history with Macha. Macha used to have three  very stupid men working for him called the three   Eddies. They lost their card man before a  big game and knew Jake was a good player,   so they called him to replace him. Jake wanted . to refuse, but they threatened Billy's family,   so he had to accept to protect them. During the  game however, the other men on the table began   insulting Jake and his mother. Jake wouldn't  accept that so he started a gunfight - the   power went off, the money disappeared, and the  next thing he knew, someone dropped his name   and Jake was being questioned by the police. To , keep him from talking, they threatened his niece   and accidentally killed his sister-in-law  when she tried to protect her daughter.   Jake didn't tell the cops that Macha organized , the games and was sent to jail for seven years,   during that time, the Eddies upset Macha in some 

way which resulted in him using them as concrete.   After visiting a bunch of clients, Zach sends , Jake to stay at a motel. Meanwhile, Macha and   Paul visit crime kingpin Sam Gold, considered , the "ultimate figure" all other crime bosses   want to be like. However, Gold never receives , visitors, so instead they meet with his advisor,   Lily Walker, who accepts to broker a powder deal , with Macha. She also reminds him that Gold doesn't   like publicity or give second chances. Sometime  later, Jake gives Zach and Avi more money before   he's asked about his time in jail while playing  chess with Avi. Jake had been given two options:   fourteen years of normal time or seven years , of solitary, so he chose solitary. His cell   was between two men's, a chess master and a . conman, that had been there for a long time,   and while they never talked to each other, they . knew everything about each other. During the first   five years of Jake's sentence, the three of them  would communicate by sending messages written on   the library books, and that was how Jake learned , their formula to win any game in the world.   The two men were planning a prison break . and promised to take Jake with them,   but when they finally left, they disappeared  without a word and left Jake behind.   When he was released two years later, he found . out those two men had taken all his money and   only left behind a note that said "you can only  get smarter by playing a smarter opponent",   so Jaker started using the formula to make  himself rich at various casinos. As the days pass,   Jake continues working by visiting various clients , and giving away his own money. He's also supposed   to threaten them if they don't pay, but he can't , bring himself to hurt innocent, desperate people.   Meanwhile, Avi and Zach are chaining the side of  a wall to a truck so when they pull, they break   said wall and steal the safe on the other side. . This safe has the powder Macha had promised Lily,   so when he finds out he's been robbed, he sends . Paul to solve this no matter what it takes.   Paul goes to see their rival, Triad kingpin Lord . John, who accepts to provide them with the powder   on such short notice but only for an overinflated . price. Jake, Zach, Avi, and their team go to the   hotel where the exchange will happen. They sneak  into a room next to the thugs' to make a hole in   the wall and inject sleeping gas, putting both  Macha's and John's men to sleep. Then they steal   the money and the powder, framing it to make it , look it was Macha that robbed John and vice-versa.   Sometime later, Jake gets a call from Billy, who  tells him he's been asking around and has found   out that Zach and Avi are so dangerous , that not even Gold would touch them,   so Jake should get out of there. Jake doesn't  listen and goes back to work, where he's being   expected to shoot a scared client. He refuses  and tries to shoot Avi instead, but he realizes   the gun is empty right before Avi knocks him out. . Jake wakes up hours later in the motel and gets a   call from Avi saying he's survived his third  day so he should get a check-up. After being   visited by his niece and Billy, who leaves him  a gun just in case, Jake goes to see his doctor,   who confirms the diagnosis had been wrong and . Jake is fine. He tries to call Avi and demand   answers, but Avi only says he'll have to wait.  Meanwhile, Paul has been gathering information,   and Jake's name has come up as involved in all  the problems his men have been going through,   so Macha orders him to kill him. When Jake returns . to the motel, Avi and Zach are waiting for him   and warn him that Macha's thugs are waiting inside . the room. Jake runs away and the men go after him,   but he manages to lose them - especially when one  of the thugs slips and shoots himself by accident.   The other criminals find the body and think Jake . did it. Jake goes to see Avi and Zach at their   office, where they confess they've always known . Jake didn't tell them the whole truth about his   old deal with the Eddies. Those three clowns had  been waiting for Jake when he got out of prison   to kill him, since what he did caused them to get , fired by Macha. To save his life, he offered the   Eddies a deal: every month, he would give them 3% , of any money they would lend them. The first time,   only one Eddie agreed to it. But when they saw . he kept his deal, they all wanted to be in,   this time for a 4%. In truth, Jake was paying  each Eddie with another Eddie's money, so he   wasn't losing anything. It came to a point where .

they didn't have any more money to lend, so they   borrowed from Macha, who quickly became interested , in the Eddies' mysterious money-maker man.   After gambling with the formula and making himself , rich, Jake chose that moment to take a vacation   with his brother and niece, and that was when  Macha killed the Eddies for not paying him back.   Speaking of Macha, he's having dinner at a fancy . restaurant when he's visited by his henchmen,   that tell him Jake escaped. Sorter recognizes . John's lover pretending to be a waitress, so   he shoots her before leaving the restaurant to go  after her driver. However, his shooting is still   off and he only got to hurt her, not kill her, so  before dying, the woman manages to shoot Macha's   finger off in the middle of the commotion. Then, , Sorter is sent to Lord John's hideout to kill him   and his men. Back to Jake, he's still chatting  to Zach and Avi while they play golf on a roof.   They explain to him that nobody ever gets to see . Gold because he doesn't actually exist: he's just   a representation of ego and the personification , of greed, he only has power over those who invest   in him. So what Jake needs to do is change the , rules of what he allows to control him. Afterward,   Jake takes the rest of his money from the bank , and donates it all before sneaking into Macha's   bedroom. While fighting with the voices in his , head that represent his ego, Jake apologizes to   Macha for tricking him out of his money, accepts , him as the superior crime lord, and tells him he's   made a donation in his name before leaving. . In order to confront his fears, Jake takes   the elevator, which gets stuck on the thirteenth  floor. While fighting off a panic attack, he has   a conversation in his mind in which he rejects his . ego, finally stepping out of the "game" as a free   man. Once the elevator beings working again, Jake . reaches the ground floor and finds Macha waiting   for him with a gun, driven crazy by his own ego.  However, Jake is at peace with himself and simply   walks past him, which drives Macha mad because . he can't understand how someone won't fear him.   He begins crying as he understands how thoroughly  humiliated he's been. The next morning,   Paul brings Macha all the local newspapers for , him to see his name plastered all over them:   Jake hadn't been lying when he said he made a  donation in Macha's name, and now everyone thinks   the casino owner cares about the community. Macha . is happy to take the credit, but his happiness is   short-lived: Paul also informs him that Jake has , the powder and he's been playing them all along.   Paul, Sorter, and the rest of Macha's henchmen , go visit Billy, who manages to hide his daughter   in the cupboard when he realizes one of his . bodyguards has betrayed him. Once he's found,   the men begin hurting him while interrogating him, , not believing when he says he doesn't know where   Jake and the powder are. Paul's torturing methods  are quickly escalating and Sorter starts feeling   uncomfortable, especially when they make the girl  come out of the cupboard after they hear her sob.   Refusing to hurt a child, Sorter rejects his , ego and begins killing his fellow henchmen   methodically and effectively, but he makes a , mistake at the end and gets killed too. Meanwhile,   Macha is visited by Lily. She brings him a wreath  sent by Gold, who isn't happy with seeing Macha's   name all over the newspapers since he doesn't like , publicity. Lily also informs him that Macha's time   is over and he won't have a second chance, which . sends him into another panicking frenzy. Avi and   Zach take Jake and the powder to Macha's casino,  where Avi finally beats Jake at a game of chess   while confessing the last few details of the  story. He and Zach had been the men in the   cells next to Jake's, and they always wanted , to take him away with them, but he hadn't been   ready to accept the truth, implying they have been  nothing but merely figments of Jake's imagination.   Unfortunately, he doesn't have time to come . to terms with this because at that moment,   the casino's bodyguards come to take him , to see Macha, who has the girl with him.   After dropping the bags of powder on the floor, , Jake tells his niece everything will be fine,   which drives Macha mad because Jake is still , showing no fear even when he's pointing his   gun at the child. Humiliation causes the , ego voices in Macha's mind to reach the   conclusion that Jake can't hurt a dead man, so . he puts the gun against his head and shoots.,