Russell Crowe plays the wrong hand in Poker Face
Early in the poker game, when one person bets particularly high, others express frustration that the game may end after just a couple of hands if the money goes that fast. The script mirrors that possibility. Rather than featuring multiple situations in which Jake uses his talent for bluffing and playing the hand he’s got, there’s essentially just one, but you’re going to learn every last moment that built up to it.
So is it worth all that? Early in the game, Jake pretends he’s poisoned his friends, telling them shortly thereafter that he just wanted them to experience what he felt being terminally ill, if only for a moment. The movie tries to do the same, and it feels like a similarly unwarranted trick. If we wanted to see a movie purely about dying, Gaspar Noe’s recentBut when the poster shows Russell Crowe and playing cards, damn it, we want the badass poker-playing moments.
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