A Frustrating Game of Clichés

Rating: 3/10 (20 March 2016)

I don't know. Maybe I'm just not getting it? Is this some American thing that Brits don't get? Everyone seems to be feeling very "enlightened" having been shown that talent doesn't accommodate success, & yet the whole world is full of talented people who are forced to palette their mundane lives built on the foundations of moral bankruptcy & economic slavery. The only way people "Win" as far as I can see is luck & cheating. It's not like talented people rule countries around the world; it's not as though the top 10 billboard artists know their musical craft. It's about miserable people wanting to inflict more misery on others than they themselves have experienced. This is nothing new. The only difference here is that this sad fact of our corruption fits in to all the clichéd macho tropes of trite Hollywood media.
Sarah - being a "female" knows exactly what's going on - easy to seduce. Eddie - being a bloke gets angry when he doesn't get his own way. Bert - being a "Businessman" only thinks in terms of money. Fats - is.. guess what! A Fat Man!! And he don't talk much man! Yeah man! Cool man!
What a load of cods wallop!
There's no subtlety in any of these performances which are dragged on & on & on until it becomes a frustrating chore. It's so very blatant that "Winning is knowing when to quit" & that "No amount of money can buy a girl like Sarah". The other message here is that people love to hate talented people. But the protagonist for some reason that eludes me is too retarded to grasp this simple philosophy of life. And instead chooses to go on a self-egotistical rampage out of greed, self denial, & fear of running out of booze & sex. ??? You couldn't make this stuff up!! Even the dead drunk irate poleaxe student bum Sarah makes more sense than the rest of these pretend characters at one point! But hey man.. it's Pool man yeh! And pool is cool yeh?
So Spoiler alert: The best character in the film, the one you tolerate the film for; the girl Sarah, takes it upon herself to kill herself, but not before sleeping with the creep "Bert" who insults her, threatens her, sexually assaults her, & tells her to disappear. Why? Coz it takes the death of a bright young lady (who merely needed love) in order for the douche bag to finally win that darn game of cool pool & take home a small fortune!
So the moral to this story kids, is that if you wanna win a game of pool, you've got to loose at life first! Yeh man! Cool, man!
What a waste of my time.