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A most implausible and condescending hour and thirty-four minutes. Who was the audience???...the exact septuagenarian cast? The music is awful and ill-fitting in almost EVERY single scene. Abysmal dark lighting here. Pacinos face looks like the map of Albania and he REALLY needs a razor! Jesus! Marguiles' talent AND character is wasted here. Her character seems to have been inserted here as a gimme. The pacing is like that lousy branch of the post office that I go to, not because I WANT to but because I HAVE to. Sheesh. Was this a favor for some movie executives' nephew? Nonsensical story and plot holes larger than the dashed hopes and dreams we all have.

Walken NEEDS a comb! Like Wow.....painful because he's my favorite here.

Skip this film and have a cherry soda, it would be far more satisfying.

The ending is like that date you wish you never went on.

Gritty and raw. Caan is almost at his best here. The man that rides that hot edge. The music is poignant and direction is solid. Rounding out this "bright-lights, big-city" saga is Huttin, Sorvino, Fargas, and of course Tayback AND Woods!. A cinematic buffet! I do wish the pace was a little more even at times, but it mirrors the jagged story. A poignant and realistic portal of the gamblers' itch. Addicts' itch actually. That adrenaline rush and endorphins that Caan radiates and regulated through his very intellectual outer shell. A man at unrest. I can't say I really have much to complain about here. The ending - - - meh.

So this movie is definitely a "Blackboard Jungle" and "Young Savages" knock-off. I love J. B within this eighties cannon of flicks. Louis Gossett I feel is a waste here. He sort of saunters and drags half-assed with this character. No heavy lifting for Lou Tired? Was the check short? I dig Mr. Gossett and they just sort of added his character in I guess I will say the action and stunts are great, as well as a young Esai Morales emerging as an actor in this one. Victor our villain is so-so, I mean he looks WELL-OVER high school age....lol

OBVIOUSLY predictable and flawed, BUT that is what makes any fan of 80s flicks smile

Flashes or greatness and sincerity tucked in here.

Rae Dawn Chong does what she can with the material. I will say that the soundtrack is definitely eighties-nostalgic. The movie TOTALLY has that sickly-sweet-corny vibe that makes me love it.

I watch it over and over.