Jessica's Game

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2018)

It was a good film thanks to a great screenplay but Aaron Sorkin and solid performances. This marks also Sorkin's directional debut and you can see that he learned a lot from his pal David Fincher. The style is similar but often comes across as a poorer copy. Still for a first time direction effort it was fine enough. Jessica Chastain is very good in the role of Molly Bloom and delivers one of her best performances of the last years. Very solid, condoled and to the point. A character that fits her usual choice of role quite well. but because of that comes up less inspired. Idris Elba was good as well, he had a couple of really great scenes and played his character very appealing and sympathic. I really loved Kevin Costner and wish he had had more scenes, a great performance, one of his finest for sure.
The score was good and the film had a nice cinematography. The editing was often a bit too quick for my taste, it really didn't fit the rest of the film and it could have been a little shorter, but that is really complaining on a high level as the film in general was very good, especially if you like Poker but not only because of that as it is also an interesting character story and biopic in general.