Lucky You (2006)

Whoops. Put together some great actors (Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall) and a great creative team (co-written by Eric Roth and Curtis Hanson, directed by Hanson who made two awesome movies, L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys), and watch all the talent totally go to waste. I really wanted to see more of my favorite poker players like Negreanu, Chris Jesus, and Johnny Chan, but all the actual players were relegated to ten-second cameos.

I'm a fan of long, slow dialogue scenes, but not when the dialogue is this atrocious. Also, Bana's character is pretty irredeemably unlikeable, and he just stares at everyone. Weak sauce. It is interesting to watch a WPT final table without Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten's incessant commentary. Not that their commentary is bad.