Posted at 10.03.2008 17:52 by Bleez
On a painfully slow day such as this, a staff pick from me is inevitable. This time, I chose to tell you about ‘Rounders‘. In the top 5 of every ‘best poker movies’ list, many think that this is the best poker movie there ever was. And I tend to agree. Almost every other movie about poker, that I’ve seen, portrays it as a game of luck plus chance rather than skill and wits, and that just isn’t true. As Matt Damon put it so well: “Why do you think the same five guys make it to the final table of the World Series of Poker every year? What, are they the luckiest guys in Vegas?”. The flick is very well casted and acted out. It isn’t a feel-good comedy, and shows how life can bite you in the ass. Overall, ‘Rounders‘ is a must for every fan of the art that is poker, and an exciting watch for the casual viewer.
Synopsis: A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card shark, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student’s need to be something other than what is dictated to him.
Genre: Drama
IMDB rating: 7.3 (29,852 votes)
RT rating: 72%
Directed by: John Dahl
Starring: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, John Malkovich, Martin Landau, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol
Release Name: Rounders.1998.DVDRip.XviD.AC3-DEViSE
Size: 2 CD, 1.4 GB
Quality: DVDRip, XviD, 720×304, video 1420k, audio 384kbps @ AC3
Runtime: 115 minutes
Filename: devise-rounders.cd1, devise-rounders.cd2
Links: IMDB, Trailer
NFO: Here
Torrent: IsoHunt Torrent
