Hurt my head

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2018)

One of the worst movies I've seen lately. A case of when a writer shouldn't also be the director. I think if there were a director they would've said 'no, we don't need to over-explain and narrate everything here, let's try to tell a story visually, let the audience figure out what's going on'.
The whole interview/exposition set up in movies is so overplayed, and it's done very poorly here. It's like everyone in this movie is giving an explanation of the world that's going on around them. The dialogue is so forced and fake. I nominate this movie for the Razzies.
And why does every single movie that has poker in it, have to explain how to play poker and the colorful terminology that comes with it? Is this a story or a poker lesson? Is this writing supposed to be interesting because it's littered with poker terms?
Chastain is wasted here. She's great in Miss Sloane. Just go watch that.
All the yakking, it was like watching people read from a cheesy book. Yak yak yak, then big fake emotional send up. The flashbacks were bad too. Michael Cera was maybe the only decent thing about this movie.
The real life story itself seems stupid. The Russians didn't even seem to have anything to with the outcome? Yet they're painted as the antagonist's from the beginning?
None of this should've happened, movie or real thing.