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.