Kevin Spacey... shame on you for accepting such a role.

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2008)

Warning - may contain spoilers.
I will make this very brief.
Kevin Spacey... shame on you for accepting such a role.
The movie was below the passing line and I would not watch it again on my deathbed if it meant it would keep me alive.
What the screenwriters may have not kept in mind is that many of the viewers, those who would actually go and see the movie, may not have read the book or know of all the juicy details that have been left out of the movie. I had to figure out what the count of cards was on my own. It felt nice to have to use your brain a little to figure something out, but as I was reading other posts (comments) I learned that what I had figured out on my own was very primitive and much more elaboration would have made things clearer and given the movie a little more edge - although its pretty round edged to me.
Why would the MIT professor be so cruel and mean and cold, to the point that he had to call the casino security which results in the beating of one of his "brilliant" students who had made him tons of money.
How could that same professor so quickly be convinced in a scene of about 1 min and 45 seconds to go back to the table and play a "last round" with the same student he had screwed over and so openly called as a cunning genius... Did this professor lack intellect? This made no sense what so ever and was very unbelievable as something that a rational person would do.
One thing to admit, the final twists were unpredictable.. but by that point I had already developed my own mind about the movie... Big fat failure. I'm ashamed I wasted my time watching it. I thought it would be good... I guess the next time I see spacey in a movie, I wont be able to take the movie off the shelf without questions asked as I once did...