Nicely done!

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2006)

A movie about winning and loosing, not only in gambling but also in life! My personal feelings about the movie are rather good! The plot was OK, tempo also OK and overall GOOD.
My expectation was only to view a mediocre film and knowing what was going to happen as the movie went on, meaning that these type of films are quite easy to anticipate. Well, I can say both yes and no. Not wanting to unveil anything for you guys that have not seen the movie I won't go any further in this matter!
The flick should be great when looking at the cast right? We have Al Pacino(greatest of all time), Matthew McConaughey and Rene Russo as lead actors. I have no real complains about the acting, actually the acting was radiant if you ask me. Surely Al Pacino has been seen better and more convincing but Matthew in my opinion steals the show.
Pacino plays a famous sports-gambler-business-owner, who is very intense and has a recognized gambling problem. Although he hasn't gambling himself the past 15 years or so. The treatment and meetings he's attending seems to work out just fine. Moving on to Matthew then, his character is more soft spoken and much humbler. Growing up and becoming one of the States most promising quarterbacks ended up in a nightmare. A leg injury was so bad that it forced him to give up football at a very young age. Still having the love for the game and God blessed talent at predicting games makes him a wanted sport-games-expert. Pacino convinces him to work for him and quickly he does..
Rene Russo plays Pacinos wife incidentally.
You should really give this movie a shot, maybe it's a helping hand to people with an actual gambling problem :)..You might even get surprised, don't want hand out spoilers what so ever but in closure I must say; Gambling is a beautiful lady in a red dress, naahh mean?
Watch this movie!