terrible... so disappointed.

hyped garbage

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I like reading the reviews of other people and being able to compare my impression of a movie with theirs. However, I don't understand why so many people submit a movie review and feel they have to give a full summary of the plot. After reading the main review which covers the story line,I wish reviewers would just give their opinion of the film. No need to repeat the story over and over. We get it. Not too sure how realistic this story was. Seemed a little over the top but certainly drove home the point about the gambling issue. Fun entertaining "sports" movie but looking at it from a totally different angle. Football was just the vehicle for showcasing some people with some real personal issues.

At the end of the day, after we have already discussed the story, the morality, the flirt-with-the-wife arc, the ending .... at the end of the day this movie will be remembered for Matthew McConaughey's willingness to go up against Pacino. No easy feat, that. Pacino is an actor's actor, he has been stealing scenes with aplomb since his Godfather days (where, no coincidence, they based an entire segment on his character). When he is not in a film stealing scenes, he is on Broadway, or off-Broadway, honing his craft (ie, honing his ability to steal scenes.) And nature has been kind to Pacino, on top of everything else, in the last 20 years his voice has turned into a natural growl that is not only unique on the screen but helps him (you guessed it) steal even more scenes. So, into the ring walks Matthew McConaughey, an actor of wildly uneven skills, sometimes brilliant, sometimes lost (see his forays into horror) and the real issue here -- plot aside -- is, does McConaughey hold his own, or does he get chewed up with the rest of the furniture? Answer: Matthew pulls it off. Gifted with an odd sort of physicality, he does indeed hold his own in this film against the pro, and THAT is what makes this film likely to stand the test of time.

Money, money, money. If you don't any...you want some. And thanks to unhappy people wanting money fast, other people get richer. Matthew McConaughey plays Brandon Lang, a former outstanding college football star that suffers a career ending injury. His life isn't in the crapper just yet, because he has the uncanny talent of predicting winners and losers on the gridiron. He gets the attention of Walter Abrams(Al Pacino), one of the biggest sports consulting moguls in the business. Abrams takes the hunky Lang under his wing and with a leg up soon both are pulling in an ugly amount of money. When things start to turn sour for Brandon, Abrams puts on the pressure and that leads to a duel of con against con. Stakes escalate and the high rolling lifestyle is in danger of petering out. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.D.J. Caruso directs and Dan Gilroy writes. The only drawback I can find is maybe the running time of 2 hours and a bit. Of course, those that are not sports minded will pass on this anyway. Fine supporting cast: Rene Russo, Jeremy Piven, Armand Assante and Jaime King.

'Two for the money' is based on the story of Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), a promising football player who suffers a serious injury, and while recovering and trying to make a living discovers he has a big talent in guessing how the matches turn out. He's hired by Walter Abrams (Al Pacino), the owner of a big betting agency, who helps turning him into a personality and earning loads of money. But as he gets more and more successful, things get out of control and he doesn't know who he is anymore.Well, for me the whole thing just didn't work at all. The plot is absolutely shallow and predictable and there are just too many clichés. I can't believe anyone still bases a movie on the 'how-far-will-I-go-before-I-lose-myself' routine. The pace of the film is awful, being exciting only in the beginning; the viewer will quickly lose his interest in the continuity of things. There's also what for me seems to be an unrealistic fact in the film – how come a beginner in the betting business gets to rise so fast and gets so much investment out of nowhere? – it's either an incoherence or more time should've been spent in explaining Brandon's career beginning.To add up to the terrible script there's the fact that Matthew McConaughey is absolutely untalented and just doesn't have what it takes to lead a film that isn't a chick flick. Perhaps that is even more transparent when you're acting beside Al Pacino. His entire character is a cliché. On the other hand there's Al's part which he plays as well as usual. It's not a special or unforgettable performance, but in my opinion he was prejudiced by his character. Both his and McConaughey's parts are poorly built; Al's the most, and I got completely confused on what I was suppose to think about Walter Abrams. Is he a nice guy with a gambling problem and some psychological issues or is he a greedy, lying bastard who will do anything for his benefit? I didn't know whether to root for the leading man or the supporting actor– though I'll always pick Al, that's for sure.The only good couple of moments in this film in my opinion were the ones that focused on Al and Rene Russo, who although barely appears in the film, works well. Their relationship is one of the few convincing facts in this movie. Other than that there is actually a nice message at the end of the film regarding self-destruction.Al can't perform miracles !