great film

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2019)

I wanted to start my review for the people saying her skiing career was embellished or a lie. She ranked third in North America in 98. So anyways. I'm glad I finally watched. Somehow I'd skip by it as I thought it wouldn't be my kind of movie. How wrong was I. I love movies showing women of power in a mans world, Heddi Fleiss, Molly bloom. Were not very different in the fact the guys came to gamble, play poker but kept returning for the beautiful women and the excitement of something they couldn't conquer. I was reading reviews on another film Jessica was in ( I've never seen her in anything) saying she's a horrible actor. I have to disagree. She isn't an over the top actor but a very fine one indeed. I thought all the performances were great. Isra was excellent. The narrating, in the beginning did kind of get in the way of immersing yourself in a scene completely and was a bit confusing. But I enjoyed it and it became less of an issue as the movie progresses. Yes people it's a true story but a movie. Could tearing it apart for not being exactly like the real story. It's as close enough a movie can get. So over all I' really glad I watched it. I thoroughly enjoyed it!