Directed by:
Guy RitchieComposer:
Nathaniel MéchalyCast:
Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, André Benjamin, Andrew Howard, Mark Strong, Francesca Annis, Sacha Bennett, Togo Igawa, Vincent Riotta (more)Plots(1)
Jake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He's rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner and has taken in so much money over the years. He is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can't play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down. (official distributor synopsis)
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Guy Ritchie took his camera and his old acting crew and headed to the American casinos to play at being higher level gangsters. They grab Luc Besson along the way, and they are picked up at the airport by Ray Liotta. Looking at Jason Statham they decided that his new look with long hair and beard looked cool, so they gave them the lead roles and in all seriousness made a convoluted story in which money, drugs, and guns play second fiddle. That’s because the inner demons of people on the other side of the law are a much more serious subject, which is not to say that the final work is a total fiasco, but without any black-humored trivialization, it all feels too heavy-handed and the over-complicated plot implausible. This effort certainly didn't suit the director and it didn’t work for me (along with most of the viewing public), but I have no issues watching it again thanks to its appealing form.
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