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    The Gambler

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    I won tickets to see The Gambler earlier this month. I didn't know too much about it, but the plot seemed pretty interesting, so I went ahead and saw it. And man, I hated this movie.

    THE GOOD:

    + The cinematography is nice. Nothing special, but nice.

    + Wahlberg gives a decent performance. The rest of the supporting cast do good jobs, especially John Goodman.

    + There was one thrilling scene with a basketball player.

    THE BAD:

    - The story was so goddamn uninteresting! I haven't seen the original (don't kill me) but I didn't care about any of the characters at all! I wouldn't have cared if any of them died at any moment!

    - The movie felt painfully slow. I was waiting for something interesting to happen, but it NEVER did! I was sitting in my seat waiting for it to be over.

    - The writing, much like Ridley Scott's The Counselor, was absolutely terrible. It felt as though somebody who has never written anything in their life was given a mediocre story and as given three days to write it. It felt like Shakespeare was drunk, blind and was given a broken typewriter. Okay, I'm bring a little too hard on the writing, but it was pretty horrible.

    - Wahlberg felt so miscast as a teacher turned gambler. I would have preferred somebody else as this role.

    Overall, The Gambler is one of the worst movies I've seen this year. It is so uninteresting and badly written that it was a pain to watch. Please avoid this one!

    RATING: 3/10.

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    goosebumps84@  26.12.2014 age: 13-17 420 reviews

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