By no means the best film but didn't think it was bad.

As a 'recovering' gambling addict degen mo fo, I can say this is a very good portrayal of a proper gambling addict degen mo fo.

Goddamn both of you for praising this. I basically watched that because of this praise (and the actors).
It's such a nothing movie, it was pretty painful and awkward to watch. And just nothing happens, and there's no resolution, and no pay-off. Not worth the unpleasant awkwardness.
And that's coming from someone who likes the main lead actors.

And it's not even close to a blackjack movie at all.

You didn't like lucky you? I thought it was amazing (for a poker movie).

You must set a low bar for poker movies if Lucky You is good. Was not a fan even with Robert Duvall buying a poker book from me to prepare.

Unwatchable, 2/10.

If I left a bag of old crappy bills with a friend for 6 months, telling him not to even open the bag, and came back to a bag of cleaner bills, I'd want to know what the hell went on...

The good news is film producer Harvey Weinstein said this:

“I’ve discussed making Rounders 2 with Matt Damon and I would say that’s going to be instantaneous.”

The bad news is he said it 3 1/2 years ago.

3/10 tops.

Didn't watch it, but I'm going to guess, he ends up with the girl and he loses almost all of the money, but in the end makes it all back and then walks away from gambling?

fun flick wish it was longer.

I have modest expectations for a film with 7.1 avg rating on rotten tomatoes. Still that's not bad! And I enjoy decent films, moreso if they do an ok job featuring poker, even if they're about degenerate gambling.

This is a noob stat. I don't care to elaborate though.

I think people should spoiler the **** out of that movie. It would be more entertaining for people to know how bad the plot is while it unfold.
4/10 for me. I watched it while commuting on my phone. Wouldn't have finished it at home.

Or so he says. We've heard (or said!) that one before.

i wouldnt say amazing but i actually enjoy it too. it showed the degenerate prop bet side of pro gamblers very well. the poker action was decent but id say its down side is just being a rom-dram. that and who would seriously tank the ME for their dad? FOH lol

I thought it was pretty lame actually, very predictable. Loser loses money, gets windfall, loses more money, meets girl, wins all money back on one hand, gets girl.

BTW I wonder how Craig Casino and Stan Jablonski (HPT Regs) were cast into the final poker scene?

Did not like the movie at all. Wanted to see more poker action. We never are told WHY the guy won all his money back. Was he just lucky? Did he have some special skill? If he did, the rest of the movie doesn't support that line, since he was pretty much a loser at everything.

If anything, it's a tragic movie, because the guy had broken free of his gambling addiction, but then gambling saved his butt from getting frosted by his about-to-be-released-from-prison friend. Think that guy is gonna turn to gambling again and piss away a couple or ten paychecks in the future? You bet your willy he will. And now he's got a woman and a little girl "depending" on him. At least Matt in Rounders was single (at the end) and so any negative consequences of his gambling would land on his head alone!

Abso-friggin'-lutely! Rounders is the Holy Grail of poker films and thou shall not take its name in vain! I don't care what the critics say: it's a fantastic, well-shot movie (the color palatte is gorgeous) and you can bet your butt that there's plenty of character development. In fact, the whole movie is about Matt Damon's character's quest to regain the moxy he starts the movie out with, to find his one true path and calling, which is to be a poker pro. His girlfriend at the beginning of the movie (a thankless role for Gretchen Mol) is actually the thing holding him back from being who he truly is. She's trying to fit him in a box of conventionality and the movie shows how he gradually breaks free of those bonds (with a little help from Worm) and becomes who he was destined to be: the poker hero who takes down the might Teddy KGB.

Is it cheesy? Sure. But you forgive the faults because the movie gets a LOT of things right, showing the degens that populate the poker world, the unique rush that comes in anticipation of a trip to the casino, the satisfaction of outplaying other players and taking their money, the fine line between risk and reward and how each person takes a little or a lot from each of those buckets. Rounders is by no means a perfect movie, but as far as "movies with poker in it", it's easily the tops.

If there were a Rounders 2, I would sacrifice at least my firstborn to the poker gods in gratitude (no I would not).

I love that you qualified that statement. There's a reason nobody offers Bana any serious roles. He looked like he hadn't held a deck of playing cards in his life until he was reading the poker hand rankings from a pack of Bicycles minutes before shooting.

I didn't like this movie at all. In the first place, it isn't a poker movie in any way. The gambling could have been craps and the plot would have worked just as well. We see no details of the protagonist's game, beyond bitching about bad beats and generally acting like a huge loser. He doesn't even seem to like poker.

The romantic chemistry of the two leads is almost nonexistent. The dialogue is written in the currently-popular rough and vernacular style, with lots of hesitations and "ums" and misunderstandings. Personally, I find that a pretty big step down from, say, His Girl Friday, but to each his own.

The ending is incredibly silly; I won't spoil anything, but it's a ham-fisted deus ex machina that left me with even less respect for the main character.

Naw, this movie made "Lucky You" seem Oscar worthy. I couldn't sit through it!

Nice mini review