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Rounders
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 7.3 |
Studio : | Miramax, Spanky Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Matt Damon Edward Norton John Turturro Gretchen Mol John Malkovich |
Genre : | Drama Crime |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Thanks for the memories!
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If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Like a less-assured Ocean's Eleven, the drama is solid with plenty of lightness in the characters and dialogue. In the lead, Damon is meh, but he's surrounded by acting royalty giving their all (Landau, Norton, Malkovich, Turturro). Over-the-top, silly, and melodramatic, but the attitude and simple story are a full house of fun get it? Full house?
I don't particularly like poker. It's fine but not my favorite card game or ideal choice for the premise of a film. But damn this a great drama. The story pulls you in from glitzy casinos to underground card games. The cast is top notch and deliver fantastic performances all around (even Matt Damon). You don't need to like poker or know anything about it to enjoy this film. It's that good
Rounders is not a bad movie, but does not stand out either. Rounders is about hold 'em poker, and Matt Damon trying to help a friend, Edward Norton who Matt owes. The Norton doesn't seem to learn his lesson and always relies on others' good nature to help him out of it. He uses his friends and does not seem to care. A couple of side stories where Matt ruins a love interest, and his university. The main story line of Rounders is about dealing with, reading, and playing poker with people. The directing, acting, and story is so so! I watched Rounders off a cable channel. Would I watch Rounders again? No! Just okay. Something to do on a cold February late night. Rounders is a six out of ten. Not a good hand which one would have to bluff their way through.
Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) is a card player who loses it all to KGB (John Malkovich). He vows to quit to his girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol). However when his childhood friend Worm (Edward Norton) gets out of prison, he pulls Mike back into the life.The card games can get very boring if done incorrectly. The games here are done pretty well. At least, the movie doesn't dwell on the games too much. It's the acting which makes this a superior movie. Matt Damon is really solid which allows Ed Norton to play the wild man. Their relationship is the center of the movie. Norton really has the skills to play the darker half of the duo.Some may have difficulties with the message of the movie. The idea of using your god given skills no matter what those skills may be is an unconventional message. I doubt there is another movie where the movie roots for the lead to play poker instead of studying law school.