Ex-player/hustler uses a young protégée to get himself back playing.

Rating: 5/10 (22 August 2005)

Having just sat and watched it, it is not as good as I remembered it to be. There was a time when I would have given this film a mark of 10/10 but having just seen it again that has dropped to 5.
The storyline is boring, the film is nothing more than OK, and unfortunately there was absolutely no way of typing a summary without telling you readers exactly what happens in the film from the start, to the finish.
Thankfully the leads do the best that they can with the awful script and it is down to them that the film is nothing more than watchable. I don't think other actors could have done that and kept the film watchable because even though they would have done *their* best with the script, *their* best would not have been good enough. It's the difference between watching (for example) Dustin Hoffman, who, lets face it, is a wonderful actor, and Hugh Grant, who, lets face it, is not. So it is thanks to the leads acting abilities that I would recommend you see the film just to watch them perform a minor miracle and turn what should have been a lame duck into the mediocrity that it is.