EVEN MONEY

EVEN MONEY A BIT UNEVEN
After LUCKY YOU turned out to be such a dud, I was reluctant to review another movie about gambling. Out of many words of "wisdom" the best comes from Detective Brunner (Kelsey Grammer); "Like I said we're all chasin somethin. More money. More love. What we're really looking for is more life. But sometimes you go looking for more, and you wind up with less. It's a beautiful world. We ought to be satisfied. But the truth is... we all want more." I agree... I wanted more too; like a star filled cast and decent writing with a decent plot. Instead, I got the cast, but they had little to work with. I like the way the movie didn't focus on the gambling, but rather the characters; but only to a point. They had potential, but they also had "been there, done that" stamped on their foreheads. The plot was hard to follow as it tried to bring everyone together with a big red bow at the end, but it didn't. We were left hanging and as it tried to shock us with a reveal, there wasn't left enough to care about.
Rating: Don't bet on this one unless you are really bored... really, really bored...