Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

First off I want to apologize in advance for my English. Hope you all get what I'm trying to say. As a longtime (amateur) poker player I've been reading and watching every book or film coming out with poker in it. I myself play mostly plo cuz I don't cope so well with the swings in nlhe. What can I say, I'm no Archie Karas.Now about Stuey, Stu Ungar was and will always be an icon in the poker world. Everyone who doesn't gamble think that's what the gambling world is all about, making money then spending it on sex, drugs and rock'n roll. Well Stu was such a larger than life character. His brilliant mind needed more than just the thrills of playing cards to stay satisfied, he started taking cocaine NOT so he could be able to play longer sessions (players took metamfetamine for that) but to numb his brain after days of intense playing. The intensity that Stu Ungar had in everything he did or said, his table presence that was felt everywhere he sat was never brought to the screen.If you make a movie about a poker icon you don't wanna try to make it for everyone to watch, cuz then it's turning out to be more of an educational video than something else. It should be for the fans and this wasn't!! The casting was terrible 2, Stu Ungar snorted away his nose after two decades of drug abuse and they cast Michael Imperioli to play him. Michael probably has the largest nose of any actor in the business!! Michael Jackson probably would have made a more convincing Ungar than this.Conclusion: this movie is NOT for poker players but for people who never heard about Stu Ungar or Texas hold em. It isn't fast paced like Stu Ungar's life was and turned Stu into a dull, boring alter ego of himself, Stu wouldn't have liked it!

This movie was well acted and kept my interest in the main character for the entire movie. Stu Unger lived an extraordinary life. Imagine if Stu were alive today! This movie paints a picture of what Stu Unger's life might have felt like. It was interesting to see how connected was growing up. I would have liked to seen more detail on Stu's partying, his gamesmanship and his relationship to Bob Stupak. But all in all, this movie was well done, well acted and the story touched on many facets of a life that was full of many events that were larger than life.This movie is worth renting.

I rented this movie hoping that it would provide some good entertainment and some cool poker knowledge or stories. What I got was a documentary type look at an average guys life who happened to be really good at cards. Do I want to see the romance with his wife? NO Do I want to see about everything that went on in this guy's life except poker? NO. Well thats what you get with this film. The acting is good for such a low budget piece of crap. The film never tries to break the mold or do anything original. It simply sleep walks its way through the script. The ending is disappointing and never really looks deep into Ungar's mind. Instead it focuses on what was already obvious. He was a drugged out card player with an average life not unlike any other average joe in vegas. The movie focuses on the aspects of his life that were UN extraordinary rather than the Extraordinary. The poker scenes in the entire film add up to about 4 minutes of footage. Ungar's achievements of winning the WSOP 3 times seem life after thoughts. A 10 year old could do a better job directing this movie.. or maybe it was the script being a piece of crap from the beginning that doomed this joke of a movie.If you want to see a film about gambling watch Rounders. It at least has style.

This is probably the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Independent or not, solid writing is a must. Ditto for directing and acting. I know these actors can act (I've seen them in Sporanos and more...) but this movie is very bad, very bad. Maybe it's the script, maybe it's the director. Probably a little of both.....Probably a LOT of both! Technically OK, Just bad, bad, bad... I have a theory that the backers for this movie also own the Poker magazines, because I saw a very favorable review in one of the magazines. " Hey' we made it, so it's gotta be good, right?" Not so fast Bucky. I know it takes a lot of hard work and money to even get a movie made, much less sold and distributed, and for that I commend these folks. But the final product, leave a bad taste in my mouth.P.S. I won a free rental and chose this movie from Blockbuster. Tomorrow I'm going to get my money back.