I was so bored!!! Maybe if you like watching poker championships you will like this, they kept showing poker hands over and over and over again. Drew Barrymore was terrible, there was barely a script.
The only good thing was Robert Duvall, he is great.
4 out of a 10.
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crappy script? that opening scene was genius. reminded me of Mamet's work. now the movie toward the end... ok, i won't defend that part.
shareI love poker..but the movie wasnt good...and the poker was unrealistic at times. Robert Duvall's charcater was some sort of genius because he called with draws and they always came? wtf is that all about.
Debra Messing was in two scenes. Two. She's so hot now as well. What a waste of talent.
No chemistry between bana and Barrymore. Two beautiful people with nothing in common.
"Gerballs and Hamsters, that's his game....you got a small rodent...just call out his name! "
Confirms it for me. A good script can make even a mediocre actor look good. Likewise, a script like this totally exposes a not so great actor. And boy, did this one do just that. The only redeeming appearances were Robert Duvall and Charles Martin Smith. Then again, Duvall could read a McDonald's menu and make it sound Oscar-worthy.
shareCharles Martin Smith is a good actor (he was great in The Experts!), but he seemed out of place in this film. It didn’t help that there was some super lame dialogue scattered throughout, and clichés as another poster pointed out. The part when Smith says “you want sympathy? You’ll find it between sh*t and Syphilis in the dictionary.” Nobody would ever talk like that!
Some of the lines seemed so rushed or out of place. And as great as Duvall is, even some of his ‘speeches’ were so cheesy. Don’t chase what you can’t catch. And his analyzing of the pawn ticket. It’s looked forced and wooden.
So: a realistic, down to earth show..which is completely off the wall swarming with magic robots?!