When it was over I just kind of went "Huh.." that's this film in a nutshell. It leaves no impression on you. It's so easygoing the entire way like Pocket Money (1972). The acting is alright and so is the music. Bana & Barrymore aren't bad together but there really isn't any tension or anything. Duvall is also alright. Everyone is just easygonig despite trying. Everything else isn't good. The ending is just 30 minutes of a Poker Tournament. Problem is besides Bana & Duvall we don't know any of the other people, it just gets repetitive showing round after round, and if you don't understand Poker your honestly lost. This does try to explain with Barrymore playing but it's not done well. The other big issue is the romance and Poker storyline feel like two completely seperate films. They never really tie in at all. This would've been better if it just focused on Duvall & Bana. If you legit took out the romance almost nothing changes. It's so easygoing the entire way and it feels almost like a 90's type of vibe than anything. Than there are scenes like on the golf course and buying the camera to start which make no sense and don't come back to anything. Visually it's just boring direction and just feels so meandering at times. I can maybe see a big poker fan getting more into this but most people should skip this. If you wanna see how you do Poker right in a movie watch The Sting.

I enjoyed watching 'Lucky You', seeing Eric Bana in a different role from my previous experience of him on screen. The RT ratings seem harsh from where I'm sitting. This film is not in the top league, but for what it is, a very well presented film. I bought this on DVD and always look at the Extras, The amount of work that was put into research and training for the poker scenes merits a mention. Rating this a 7.

Underrated Eric Banner classic!

This movie is seriously embarrassing to the game of poker

I truly cannot understand the disdain the film received. Hanson's film is a throwback to a time when subtlety and small, personal stories were celebrated in Hollywood, and you don't even have to go back to the Golden Age era to find it. The Curse of Star Wars has made younger filmmakers and audiences less patient and more demanding of in-your-face storytelling. This is why we're plagued with the preponderance of comic book flicks. Hanson's choice to fill in just enough details on the basic of Texas Hold'em gave the audience enough of an anchor about what transpires without giving them a TED Talk or a Daniel Negreanu master class. Anyone who's ever taken a screenwriting class knows Eric Bana's character follows the pattern of a flawed hero whose defects hold him back from success (poker), love (Billie) and family`(his father). Barrymore's "Drew" is the catalyst character who helps Huck grow. Anyone who punishes Lucky You for not being a Poker Heist film or terrorists taking over the WSOP, or Huck coming to terms with his transgender issues, does a disservice by reviewing the film they expected (or wanted) and discounting the one the director actually told. I liked Lucky You as much as I enjoyed In Her Shoes, which is another personal story well told by Curtis Hanson. This film illustrates the downside of art critics and film critics especially. Both the Hollywood Reporter and Variety reviewers decided they hated it, and two days late most major media outlet reviewers excoriated it. (I wonder how many of them actually saw the film or merely kept the Variety review in mind when they watched it?) Let it be remembered that Sideways—a very enjoyable and painfully funny Alexander Payne movie—was the darling of all the critics who predicted it would sweep the Oscars. It didn't. Not even close. This is what can happen when too many critics end up patting themselves on the back. Ignore the negatives and see the movie. It's a delightful tale.

Stay away! Lots of big names and Robert Duvallï¿ 1/2(TM)s charisma convinced me to stick around until the end. It was a trap! This movie is full of cringeworthy moments and unearned character growth. I only wish the story continued long enough to see Huck beaten to a bloody pulp by the Vegas goons once his sponsor sees Huckï¿ 1/2(TM)s hole cards at the final table on 온라인카지노추천!

This movie had very specific writing failures throughout the first 90% but was still an amazing film. The ending of the film (I won't be specific because I don't want to spoil anything) was such a spectacular disappointment that for everything done right in the first hour fortry-five, the last five to ten sufficiently flushed this film down the toilet. Don't waste your time.

Lucky You is a movie about a professional poker player who is trying to get a seat at the World Series of Poker. It’s fairly obvious that the screenwriters are familiar with the ins-and-outs of poker, or that they studied it extensively before writing this script. What they should have spent a little more time studying are the principles of writing a good story. Every scene where we see the characters playing poker was compelling. They presented it well, and knew all the best times to show us the cards in each person’s hand, and when it was best to keep us in the dark. I never felt like I misunderstood what was happening in the game, and that is something very few films with poker can claim. The problem is a lot of this movie does not take place at the tables, and those scenes are almost unwatchable. Eric Bana is flat and dull as the main character, and his pseudo-relationship with Drew Barrymore is boring and lacks any chemistry. The interactions with Robert Duvall as his father were OK, but most of that is because Duvall is trying so hard to make this character work. The biggest problem with the story is how it spirals in a never-ending cycle of the same plot points. There are only so many times they can have the protagonist desperate for some money and forced to lie, cheat, and steal to get a stake in another game before I start to tune out. Likewise the rivalry with his father is a tedious cycle of the same games with very little emotion involved. I managed to tolerate the movie because I have some interest in poker, but this is the poster child for movies that you can just fast forward in order to get to the good parts.

A fun watch, not a bad poker movie, kept my attention

My younger brother was a compulsive gambler. He died of a sudden heart attack on a river boat gambling casino. He had .59 cents left to his name. He was living in a flop house shelter in Baton Rouge. I guess you could say he was "busted flat". Lucky You told a good enough story, Barrymore and Bana clicked very well. I hope people enjoyed the movie's story and really saw what gambling can to to a person's life. One does not depend on just luck to get through this world and if you believe that it is just like that gets you by, then you may end up dead on a casino floor.

The poker was, for the most part, realistic, and had some of the top pros at the tables. But the movie as a whole was awful! No plot, incoherent,etc. Bana was decent, Duvall was great as usual, but Barrymore was dreadful! I love poker, but it was still hard to sit through. PASS!

A bit boring if you are not into the game of Texas hold-em Poker.

I found this quite boring!

I want my 2 hours and 15 minutes back.

I'm a poker fan so I'm rating this movie for me is it a good movie ehhhh it's not terrible but not great but I enjoyed the movie and I really did like it this was a good affair that doesn't deserve the flack it got Grade B

Gambler finds a girl in this tiring drama.

Lucky You is an empty, slack and joyless most of the time just makes me wonder why Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr would do this film

Eric Bana stars as a drunken gambler who falls in love with drew Barrymore. If you need a nap this is a good movie to watch.

It has its poker moments but the whole film is just pointless. It cannot seem to figure out how to make something out of a talented cast.

Drew Barrymore is awful in this; Eric Bana not much better.