Paul Newman's Best Performance Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2005)

Paul Newman plays one of his most famous roles as pool shark Fast Eddie Felson - a young man who's dreaming of beating Minnesota Fats (a memorable Jackie Gleason) - the best of the best. Unfortunately for Eddie, it doesn't happen the easy way due to Eddie's self-destructive character. The film's strongest part is definitely the acting by every actor involved. Aside Newmam and Gleason, there is also a nice performance by Piper Laurie as Eddie's girl and some strong acting by George C. Scott ("Patton") as Eddie's sleazy and greedy manager. The pool game scenes are very well shot and along with intelligent dialogs and beautiful black and white cinematography this film is well worth buying and should be part of any movie fan library.
RECOMMENDED 10/10.