Lucky You
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Movie Reviews of Lucky You
Movie Review: This movie was so boring!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is about a poker player that has had a strained relationship with his father who meets a girl. And that's about it. There is no depth or chemistry between the couple, you certainly don't root for them to be together. The father and son do repair their strained relationship at the end of the movie.
There are several poker matches shown so if you like poker, you might like this movie otherwise you probably won't.
Movie Review: I thought it hurt to watch, but that may have been my wife elbowing me.
Summary: 1 Stars
Lucky You (Curtis Hanson, 2007)
I've been waiting for a lot of years to be able to answer the question "will Curtis Hanson ever make another movie as good as L. A. Confidential?" with something other than "no". Still, I keep giving him chances, and when I found out he was helming Lucky You, the first major poker movie since Rounders, I had high hopes. As usual, however, they were dashed pretty quickly. As well, I have also discovered that I will never be able to see Eric Bana without hearing him snarl "Do I look like Mother Theresa to you?" in my head. That, however, is a topic of conversation for another (and much, much better) review.
The story concerns Huck Cheever (Bana), a professional poker player who also happens to be a compulsive gambler. Worse, his game (and personality) goes into the toilet whenever his father L. C. (Robert Duvall) is around. Huck is trying to get himself a seat in the 2003 World Series of Poker, but his ambition is derailed-- ever so slightly-- by the appearance of his friend's sister Billie (Drew Barrymore) in Las Vegas. Huck, meet Billie. Billie, meet Huck. Sparks fly. A romance is born.
The pity of it all is that that romance is as predictable and silly as any Harlequin novel. The tragedy of it all is that the poker is about the same. You know as soon as you see Huck and L. C., and they commence the endless running dialogue about Huck's mother's wedding ring, what's going to happen in the final poker scene, and if you've read any romance novels, you've probably got a better understanding of exactly what's going to happen between Huck and Billie than did Eric Roth, who wrote the screenplay. Roth has multiple Academy Award nominations to his name, so you're probably wondering how on Earth he could have come up with such predictable mush, but read far enough down on his IMDB page, and you'll realize the Oscar he won was for Forrest Gump. Question answered.
The one thing those behind the scenes on this turkey did get right is the essential weirdness of Las Vegas, and the background is wonderful. The minor characters are just great all the way around, it's the major ones who will have you steaming. Also, poker fans, Sam Farha (full disclosure: Sam Farha is my idol) gets more screen time here than he ever does on High Stakes Poker, and that might be worth a DVD rental if you're a fan. But you're far better off taking your nine bucks to a $1/$2 poker table than you are spending it seeing this movie in the theater. *
Movie Review: Not what I expected...
Summary: 1 Stars
I watched this movie on cable, hoping for a nice romantic comedy because that is what it was listed as... Not what I got. It was exceptionally boring. Lots of poker, but it is fake staged poker so where is the fun. I did not laugh or even crack a smile through the whole movie. Disappointing.Movie Review: Like a TV show
Summary: 1 Stars
Strictly for poker fans, this glorified TV movie has a big star cast, but what happened? It's deadly dull. The poker scenes are like watching paint dry. Long shots of cards on a table, while no one speaks. ZZzzz. How did Robert Duvall get mixed up in this thing? It's agonizing.Movie Review: Oh Drew, what were you thinking?
Summary: 1 Stars
If you enjoy watching people play poker, you might like this movie. Otherwise, don't waste your time. The characters and story are boring. I didn't care what happened to any of them, which turned out fine, since nothing really happened to any of them . . .