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- 2003
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2003
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary The story of a compulsive gambler (Callahan) who has managed to overcome his obsession, but is drawn back into the world of pool-shooting when he needs to try to save his brother (Rosenbaum).
Directed By: Mars Callahan
Written By: Chris Corso, Mars Callahan
- 2003
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 2003
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 39 m
Poolhall Junkies
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4.2
Summary The story of a compulsive gambler (Callahan) who has managed to overcome his obsession, but is drawn back into the world of pool-shooting when he needs to try to save his brother (Rosenbaum).
Directed By: Mars Callahan
Written By: Chris Corso, Mars Callahan
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
36
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
47% Mixed
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7 Reviews
40% Negative
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6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
36
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
40% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
The movie can't live up to Robert Rossen's 1961 classic, "The Hustler" but with its strong performances, neatly crafted script, and low-budget feel, it comes a lot closer than "The Color of Money."
Callahan mostly overcomes its grungy technical quality with entertaining dialogue, nervy confrontation scenes, decent thesping and some truly spectacular shooting on the green velvet.
For all his skill with a cue, the charisma-challenged Callahan is no Nia Vardalos in the acting department -- let alone a Paul Newman or Tom Cruise.
The result is by no means the embarrassment that many such offerings from unjustifiably vain actor-auteurs have been, but nor does it present much of anything new or compelling to demand one's attention.
If the art of a true hustler is, as Joe puts it, "beating a man out of his money and making him like it," Callahan blows it big-time with any mark who shells out to see his film.
Plays out like a variation on an old design dictum: If you can't make it good, make it big.
A movie that, in its unconditional embrace of an all-male subculture, amounts to little more than a rote circle jerk.
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