Luckytown engages enough, with a strong cast including Kirsten Dunst, James Caan and Vincent Kartheiser, but the whole thing's pretty amateurish.
For starters, why show what's going to happen in the opening credits. The general story and acting's fine, it's in the details and the dialogue where it falters. If you're going to base a film around a subject matter, you should at least learn the fundamentals of it. The poker scenes here make no sense, I have to assume it was an editing error, missing some footage, because anything else is beyond imaginable. Colonel saying Doyles has Queens because he supposedly has a tell, based on what? There's no board and most importantly he has FIVE cards to Doyle's TWO, they're not even playing the same game. Well at least that's what the viewer sees, I'm sure that wasn't the case when filming it, otherwise someone surely would've said something. The heads up game's just as ridiculous... In the end you kind of get nothing, Lidda loses her father, neither showcase poker ability. The two leave with no better pathway than before, unbeknownst to them, with a large sum of blood money. Jennifer Gareis, the most memorable part of the film, absolutely stunning.
For starters, why show what's going to happen in the opening credits. The general story and acting's fine, it's in the details and the dialogue where it falters. If you're going to base a film around a subject matter, you should at least learn the fundamentals of it. The poker scenes here make no sense, I have to assume it was an editing error, missing some footage, because anything else is beyond imaginable. Colonel saying Doyles has Queens because he supposedly has a tell, based on what? There's no board and most importantly he has FIVE cards to Doyle's TWO, they're not even playing the same game. Well at least that's what the viewer sees, I'm sure that wasn't the case when filming it, otherwise someone surely would've said something. The heads up game's just as ridiculous... In the end you kind of get nothing, Lidda loses her father, neither showcase poker ability. The two leave with no better pathway than before, unbeknownst to them, with a large sum of blood money. Jennifer Gareis, the most memorable part of the film, absolutely stunning.