Saturday, January 26, 2008

Rounders

The movie that started it all. Stellar performances by Ed Norton, Matt Damon, Martin Landau, and John Malkovich as Teddy KGB make this more than just the movie that has drawn millions into the "poker boom" of the 21st century. Despite flaws that keep it from being totally believable Rounders is an engaging, satisfying movie start to finish. One major flaw (without which there would be no movie) is that the protagonist, Mike, is supposed to be a master of reading people, but is blind to the fact that his best friend and his girl friend are respectively a sociopathic loser and a tight-assed, whining scold. And it takes the whole movie for him to wise up and dump the both of them.

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