Revolver is a must-see film. Sure, it's a tortuous mess of a movie, unwilling to even baby-step viewers through writer/director Guy Ritchie's vision, before ending up somewhere between a car crash and a thorny haemorrhoid, but such notoriety? Such critical revulsion for a former golden boy? Surely you want to see what the fuss is about...

"Revolver. I like the name of it, for a start," explains Mr Madonna on The Game: Making Of Revolver. "When you're in a game, the game just keeps revolving until you realise that you're in a game and then you can start maybe... evolving." And that's meant to be clarification. Watching Revolver is like having the letters tisguventhschytsieanheikshehlirer thrown at you and trying to make sense of them. Following the high-rolling gambling adventures of Jake (Jason Statham) as he cons conmen into conning conmen on the con, with a spectacularly redundant animation bit in the middle, Ritchie's "intellectual action movie" suffers from a severe case of the smug.

"The perceived enemy is not the real enemy," waffles Statham, capturing Revolver's not-quite-there cleverness. Ritchie can make good films (three shoot-outs here see him in his element), but he just needs to lay off the pub-philosophy. Think his 'masterpiece' must be better than its glut of one-star reviews? Only one way to find out...

DVD Extras:

Commentary with Guy Ritchie
The Concept - Interview With Guy Ritchie and James Herbert
The Game: Making Of Revolver
Deleted scenes
Outtakes