Pretty boring, barely entertaining

Rating: 5/10 (12 October 2005)

This movie wants to be Boiler Room, or something like it. Two For The Money has some greedy characters who are quick to bend the rules and break the law to get ahead of the guy next to them. And, like Boiler Room, we're given a glimpse into the life of one "victim" of their efforts. And like Boiler Room, we're given a peak into the seedy underworld of a gray-market business that we otherwise would never see.
But this movie does not measure up to Boiler Room. I wished I was watching Boiler Room again.
Two For The Money just falls short. Al Pacino's acting is the same as any movie in which you've seen him. Every 5th or 6th scene affords Pacino his typical diatribe with a room full of people listening. All stuff you've seen before.
And all the scenes of this movie are pretty random. There's hardly a story here to care about. Every scene could have been cropped out and placed anywhere back in the film, in random order, and it wouldn't make any difference.
Wait for it to appear on TV.