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Two For the Money
Al Pacino, Rene Russo, Matthew McConaughey
Wall Street + Boiler Room come to sports gambling. Pacino runs a sports gambling tip service, MM is his main prognosticator, and RR his gorgeous wife, still looking good. The movie requires that you accept what psychologists call “the gambler’s fallacy”: that past independent events predict future ones. It’s not true, as any intelligent person knows, but gamblers don’t know it, and either, apparently do any of these characters, or the director and writers. You also have to believe that there is, in fact, “inside information” that can be used in betting, when really it is all just talk radio chatter. Finally, you have to enjoy stereotyped, repetitive and clichéd football scenes with loud inane announcers. I am not a football fan nor a gambler, so maybe this was just not the right movie for me. Pacino and Russo give 100% acting, but they are fighting a mind-numbing, clichéd script. Reviewed 2/2/06.
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