loads of male attraction, no love interest and near zero reality

Rating: 2/10 (24 October 2005)

Great if you like the sound of Pacino's voice (I do a bit) and the sight of Matthew's torso. But Resso is as much a fizzle as is the story line... Gambling can be a great high just, more often it is a home wrecker. But this story line captures neither... might just have been about the triads making money in back streets of Hong Kong, it was all foreign to me. The cheesy ending was recognizable enough... a desperate effort to get back to minimum Hollywood standards of what is expected of good guys. There are other problems with the story but there is little point in going through these in light of larger issues.
Overall, fans of Pachino will go see this movie just as surely as fans of the Rolling Stones will buy an album "sight unseen". I just wish he would find better projects to work on... he's not going to live forever and every maestro wishes to have had one last masterpiece which gets left undone. In that sense, this movie is less a waste of viewers time or producers' cash, but of Pacino's talent.
BG