You never know , you might relapse.

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2006)

Those were the words spoken by Walter at the gambling meeting which I found to be really funny .I decided to check out to for the money because I thought it would be a welcome change to my normal genre of movies and what I can say is that the film starts of good and you as the person who is watching kind of develop some sort of attachment to Brandon Lang after his hopes of becoming a high flyer are put to the side when he becomes injured and like the rest of us works a nine-to-five . Something that I could feel for him was that he was young,well to do and has plenty of ambition and still dreams of making it big but is stuck in a very dead end place where he feels he won't get anywhere . Que the rather wild , wacky ,and some what flamboyant Walter Abramhs played in style by Al Pacino who then goes onto promise the Brandon the world if he comes works for him. And thusly you see a star in the making as you see Lang's speeding rise to the top from his desk job days to the point where he starts using the alias Jhon Anthony - the million dollar man with a billion dollar plan!! He also gets to drive the Merc-Benz SL 500 which coincidently my boss drives at well and says that one day it will be but I don't really believe that people . So far so good but then during the second half of the film when things turn sour and Lang's world starts crashing down before him the film then gets a little sloppy and thusly loses what direction it wants to go in , from this it tends to drag on a little longer than it should do which I didn't mind as long as it was given time to recover but instead it started developing plot holes . Al Pacino performance was great , I found my-self laughing with his witty ability to turn things around . Matt McConghay was also gave solid performance portrait a person who got him-self in a little to deep but was enjoying the part. Rene Russo performance was also pretty solid . All in all Two for the Money was on its way to earning an 8 or 8.5 but because of the sloppy , dis-organised , some what unrealistic second half it started losing marks . However the first half was brilliant the way it showed us a gritty , realistic portrayal of the cut-throat business which is known as sports gambling . Definaltly worth a rental .
TWO FOR THE MONEY - A RATHER WEAK 7.5 OUT OF 10 .
THIS IS THE SHADOWMAN SIGNING OFF WISHING YOU A GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.