Lucky You
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Movie Reviews of Lucky You
Movie Review: Pretty Good!
Summary: 5 Stars
Drew Barrymore is a delight to watch, she reminds me a little of her character in Never Been Kissed, the part where she was kindah popular. She wears sexy dresses in this and sings! (I didn't know Drew sings)
And Eric Bana is so handsome! He's a bit of a sleezeball at first (lies and steals) but by the end, he's changed some. Eric Bana is also such a hunk! Someone should really put him in more projects we can watch, I mean I like he's acting work too--so subtle yet powerful.
Drew should do more romantic comedies!
Movie Review: i love this film when most didn't
Summary: 5 Stars
Lucky You
i may be one of the few who loved this film
then again look at the stellar cast
eric bana who just looks good no matter what
robert duvall is great
so is drew
Movie Review: Yes It's A Poker Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't beleve all the bad reviews saying they didn't like it becouse it was A poker movie! NO S**T you dumb Assclowns!!! its A poker movie. The movie is for poker fans only! If your not into poker you can find A better movie! --
Hey, gess what, the movie 21 is about blackjack!
Movie Review: Loved this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Really enjoyed the plot & the acting was superb. The story kept me guessing right up the end! There were no slow spots in this film, it was very entertaining.Movie Review: I'm all in for "Lucky You," which got bad hand from moviegoers
Summary: 4 Stars
"Lucky You" received a bad hand from the studio, many critics and the moviegoing audience. On the shelf for about two years, and opened (or, to be honest, "dumped") the same weekend as "Spider-Man 3," it was rather given up on by the studio, but "Lucky You," a poker movie that could have benefitted from being released when poker's popularity was at its apex, is unlike most movies based on current trend in that it is a good, little movie.
While the romantic angle (between Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore) might not set off many fireworks, the story of a poker player (played by Bana) whose "job" is playing poker and who, as his father says, plays poker as he should lead his life, and leads his life as he should play poker, pulls one in (especially if they enjoy poker).
In a time when most movies are sequels or remakes of TV shows or older movies, "Lucky You" is an original that focuses on the relationships between son and estranged father, and even though the son (Bana) can't forgive his father (played by Robert Duvall) for using and abandoning his mother, he commits the same things in his own relationships with women.
He's emotional and more freewheeling in his poker playing, and yet he holds things close to the chest and is exploitative and even cold in his person-to-person relationships.
That may sound boring to those moviegoers weaned on a diet of CGI, action and dramatic sequences merely as the thin thread between action cinematography, but something about it had me go to the theaters three times to see it.
Perhaps the protagonist is much like us, the common people -- he's not perfect, we see that the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, and by story's end, he makes a change, but only by degrees.... he's not a changed person, but a slightly smarter one, who learns to cut loose some emotional baggage that he'd been lugging around with him, hampering both his poker playing and his relationships.
At times, the movie feels like a small brochure for Vegas, (and that's NOT a bad thing) as Bana rides about on his motorcycle on the Strip at night, and we see a diner here, a Chinese restaurant there, a small nightclub over here, and a number of hotel-casinos, but it's all entertaining, as we see him go from hotel to hotel, and even a golf course, all in his journey to get a seat at the World Series of Poker, of which, his father is a two-time winner.
Much of the drama takes place at the poker table (whether it's on green felt, or across a pharmacy diner table), and it's played realistically (no multiples of great hands during one deal).
It may not have the polish of Curtis Hanson's other movies, but it didn't deserve to be shelved either and thrown in a cage with Spider-Man, but it has an emotional pull (and some light funny moments that will bring a smile to your face).
It's better than the sum of its parts and has the right blend of drama and atmosphere that will have me going back to the table for another deal.
When other movies choose to play things big and loud, Lucky You plays things small and close to the heart, and is a winning hand because of it.