Fast Eddie in a Slow Movie

Rating: 4/10 (1 January 2019)

A collection of mercurial characters were put together to make this movie. A movie, as the title suggests, is ostensibly about hustling in pool. Fast Eddie (Paul Newman) is the young hot shot pool player from Oakland, California out to hustle all-comers. He's good but he definitely has a problem of knowing when to quit.
If Eddie wasn't a problem enough as a character, he meets a woman who has her own demons and they are even more nebulous. Her very presence was confusing. How he met her, how they became an item, and even her manner of speaking didn't really make much sense to me. In fact, take her character out of the picture and it's a better more cohesive picture.
As it was, the movie was a bit slow, showed too much pool playing and too many unlikeable characters.