Best movie of 2017

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2019)

Molly's Game stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, and Kevin Costner. Jessica Chastain plays Molly Bloom an Olympic skier who went from competing in the Olympics to running underground poker clubs that attracted the attention of the FBI. At first when I heard about this and watched the trailer I was thinking to myself that this was cool how an Olympic athlete went on to run her own poker clubs and that was what attracted me to this movie. And from the very first bit of the movie, I was mesmerized by how incredible how this actually happened. The script and the dialogue are top notch that I forgot I was watching a two and a half hour movie because of how intelligent it was. Jessica Chastain is incredible and delivers a great performance and she narrates her life from when she was in the Olympics to hosting her own poker clubs to her encounter with the FBI. I want to compare this to Goodfellas, which is also a great movie by the way, but instead of Henry Hill we have a sort of Henry Hill character here. But instead of him becoming a gangster we have her working at two jobs she hates to become a successful businesswoman. If I could pick a flaw it would be half way towards the end which went on for a little bit long, but no so much that I was checking my watch every five minutes. Even those family moments didn't bother me at all as we learn a brief history about her life. Everything about this movie fascinated me that I didn't care what was true or not because I wanted to watch a movie that entertained me and that's exactly what it did. And in the end I will say that this is definitely one of top films of 2017.