Madonna defends Ritchie’s “Revolver”

LONDON (Reuters) – Singer Madonna defended her husband Guy
Ritchie’s latest film “Revolver” on Tuesday, when the couple
attended the London premier after a series of damning reviews.

The film stars Ritchie regular Jason Statham as a man out
to get revenge on a mob killer played by Ray Liotta.

It is the director’s first film since the ill-fated “Swept
Away” in 2002, which starred Madonna but went straight to DVD
in Britain.

“I love it,” she told Sky television, referring to the new
movie. “I think it’s a very brave film, a bit macho.”

Ritchie has not had a hit since “Snatch” in 2000, which
followed his popular “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” two
years earlier.

Ritchie said he had not read the reviews and said the film
was made for the audience and not the critics.

“Ritchie’s new film lands on cinema-goers’ collective head
like a sack of wet sand,” was the Guardian newspaper’s comment.