This is not just a movie about pool, "The Hustler" is a movie about life

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2008)

This is the best movie where Paul Newman is the star. Paul Newman has been the star of great movies like: Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (my favorite movie) and The Sting (the last 2 along with Robert Redford), but no one has the strength and realism of "the hustler" that made of Paul Newman a movie star and being considered as the new Marlon Brando.
Paul Newman made the character of Eddie Felson his, and not for a moment I thought I was watching Paul acting, I was watching Eddie Felson going through life from city to city, from pool to pool hustling people making a living like many lonely hustlers in the world.
The plot of the movie is about Eddie Felson, a pool hustler, who comes to New York to challenge Minnesota Fats (the best pool player in the country) to earn a lot of money but overall to be the number 1. But is in NY where he is going to meet Sarah Packard, an alcoholic complicated woman, and Bert Gordon, who likes to bet in almost everything and owns Minnesota Fats between many other things. Sarah and Bert will teach Eddie in a few days much more about life of what he has learned in all his life in pools hustling.
It's in this world of losers where Eddie Felson lives fast and loose always looking for some action.
This movie deserves to be in the top 100 IMDb movies.