It’s a really good movie

The young people behind the film have done a great job and it can be seen in this film. I liked it very much.

I felt like the characters in this movie could feel the happiness and difficulties that they faced in real life.

The plot was instructive

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller (Ann Prentiss) and Susan Peters (Gwen Welles), and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny (George Segal), Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

Very astonishing comedy. Recommend to anyone

It is good to watch and understand someone’s life from the movie even you are not experienced. Interesting movie

I was surprised to find out this was directed by Robert Altman. Movie is a fascinating character study of gambling addiction. Elliot Gould goes all in with a full tilt performance. I liked the how the movie ended.

Understands gambling and is real. So much better thsn recent movies like Rounders which are so fake and iver acted. This is the real deal. Just gteat.

Pure Altman, with masterful interior shots of crowds in a casino and a race track, A very "talkie" shooting script that, whatever moments of adroit ad-libbing the actors might have supplied, must have been 300 pages long Only a masterful director could have done this. At heart, it's a twisted, boozy buddy film. Elliott Gould and George Segal have never been better (and seem to have been made to act opposite one another). The cross-dresser in the girlfriend scene is misled that he is about to be arrested by these two, who are impersonating cops, but he is nevertheless accorded some dignity by the girlfriends and the "cops," and is never an object of cheap ridicule. However, the movie has a strange ending. It just ends and the credits roll, as if the director ran out of film -- or patience;

One of Altman's "minor" films is really a masterpiece. Manages to be entertaining while giving a sobering look at gambling addiction. Great rapport between Segal and Gould. Loved it.

Altman created a naturalistic canvas that Gould and Segal inhabited as naturally as any actor could have; this is a fully realized world with fully realized addicts struggling with their worst habits.

Just okay. Feels a little dated and breezes by amiably but lazily.

elliot gould movies are not my faves

This just couldn’t draw my interest 2.7

Elliott Gould is the perfect troll. He knows exactly how to press a person's buttons. But man, he's a smooth dude and real funny. Really great dialogue and acting in that first poker table scene with the hairy guy losing his shit claiming that the two guys are working together. Robert Altman's so good at going form one thing to another to another without any warning. I imagine his mind kind of works like that.What a weird fucking situation. What the hell's going on in that house? Is everyone related or just friends? I'm so confused. This movie is so chaotic and random. Wtf is going on? Lol. Like that cross dresser? Wtf? Gambling can be a very vicious and unforgiving thing. It got really funny towards the end especially when they're at the Kino table and Gould starts analyzing each player coming up with their backstories. There's always a certain genuineness to Altman's movies, a sort of realism to the actors emotions and what they're feeling. Not every director can get that across in their movies but he nails it. It's almost like a natural thing that happens with actors in his movies where they just feel super comfortable. Dude don't flaunt all the money you just won!! $18k! He's begging to get robbed. Gould is so funny man. Every time he pops up into the blonde guy's life, he always seems to bring to bad luck with him which ends up affecting the blonde guy. I can definitely relate to that. But then at the very end, he helps him out and they both end up winning huge money. I'm glad the blonde guy didn't get sucked into the dark world of gambling. He had a goal, he surpassed it, he took the money and he ran. Smart man. Unfortunately for Gould's character, he will forever be stuck in the gambling world. Really funny movie with some great acting. Another great Altman film! I really liked it. I'd watch it again.

Full of (overlapping, unintelligible) sound and fury that signifies nothing, as the characters come to recognize, the film suggests that gambling, at least at a this high a level, has little to do with desire, because it's not about the pot but about the play, not about where the roulette ball or how the craps die lands but about the spin of the wheel and roll of the bones, following instead the compulsive circuit of drive around a constant lack and necessary loss.

This is the anti-Uncut Gems. Uncut Gems was very much about the 21st century gambler, betting on any scenario in any sporting event. California Split is about old school gambling - playing poker in a dark, smoke-filled old time casino with a bunch of older men. The movie isn't compelling throughout - it meanders a bit and is confusing at times. But the sequence at the end in Reno is well done, and seeing the toll it takes on Bill is very interesting.

The best comedy movie ever made!

George Segal, Elliott Gould AND a young Jeff Goldblum? Phwoar!