PabloGT

There is one thing I dislike the most about certain movies, and this is when they pretend to be smart, well-made, and to be something, while they indeed lack details, arguments, script, and the acting capacity of its stars is not even considered. This is all about "Four Dogs Playing Poker". At a certain moment you feel that you left your brain somewhere else, because you can't believe what you are seeing. One can be mislead, though. You see big names, i.e., Tim Curry, Forrest Whitaker, playing small roles, and you immediately presume that you are in front of a piece-of-art that has convinced those big names to work almost for free just to help a young and gifted director. I don't want to judge their intentions, but I can tell that the only good thing about "Four Dogs Playing Poker" is that keep you all the time filling up all the details that are missing. I don't want to tell you what details are missing, I prefer that you rent the movie, see it when you have nothing to do, and challenge your brain to find out all those things that make no sense at all. If the movie wanted to play a little bit serious, it should have joked about the stupid idea of its main characters, and show how unproductive it was at the end. That would have at least save the day. In a scale of 1 to 10, let not be so hard on them, let's give a 3+.

One of the persons that made a review on this film complains because of a movie that works golf more than the characters. Is it necessary always to follow the same patterns? I think it is the director choice how to manage a story and present it to us. In Robert Redford case, he did it elegantly, convincingly, and knowingly. He is telling us in images, what the book says in words. When you play a game like golf, it is yourself, the ball and the course. There's no one to blame for those bad shots; it is you and only you. It's a selfish game that will always test you. If you have your ears open, you will hear the Golfing Gods and learn the lesson. If not, you are nothing but a weekend hacker, having a good time with no brain in it. Yes it's true, it is not a masterpiece, and there are moments when you think the story could be worked a little bit more, but at the end the message is delivered, and you must be there to acknowledge receipt.