The first 40 to 50 minutes of this movie was very interesting, but after that it dragged and never really recovered for me.
They just went on and on and on between the time Henry Fonda's "Meredith" fell "ill" and the time the big poker hand was consummated - over half the film waiting to see what happened! It was frustrating and ridiculous.
The ending is neat, if you don't know there's going to be a big surprise. If you it, and I was tipped off, it's easy to spot and ruins some of the ending, although there is another twist added. All that was cool but it took far too long to get to that point. Today's audiences would never stand for something to be drawn out that long. Now that poker has become such a big game, I'd like to see this re-made but with a much tighter script.
They just went on and on and on between the time Henry Fonda's "Meredith" fell "ill" and the time the big poker hand was consummated - over half the film waiting to see what happened! It was frustrating and ridiculous.
The ending is neat, if you don't know there's going to be a big surprise. If you it, and I was tipped off, it's easy to spot and ruins some of the ending, although there is another twist added. All that was cool but it took far too long to get to that point. Today's audiences would never stand for something to be drawn out that long. Now that poker has become such a big game, I'd like to see this re-made but with a much tighter script.