I adore Jessica Chastain, but this is bland formula stuff, unworthy of her terrific acting skills. Maybe enjoyable for pokerfans, everybody else beware!

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2019)

I loved these actors in previous films, I am especially fond of Jessica Chastain, her name was the reason I choose to see this picture. The fact that this movie got a ridiculous 7.5 rating is why I write this review, to hopefully deflate the hype somewhat, because this is barely worthy 5 stars, at best. Perhaps pokerfans could stand to watch it to the bitter end, but if you truly love movies for true to life acting performances and/or real life dialogues, you will be disappointed, because this is just another bland formula movie.
Everything just feels unnatural. And that matters, because this is suppose to be a true to life portrait of a sidekick, who earned big bucks organizing high roller poker games. Based on a true story, which is indeed rather interesting, but all the dialogues feel rushed, superficially speeded up to probably please the teenage popcorn loving masses who cant stand a second of natural silence in a dialogue. I can clearly sense the manager's influence in this movie, who desperatedly want to sell it to a young teenage audience and decide to speed the dialogues up. Because speed sells. Wrong thinking.
Watch "Rounders" with Matt Damon and Edward Norton and John Malkovich. THAT is a truly great film about poker. Molly's game is just fluff, only produced to cash in on the poker game hype. Such a waste of actor's talent.