The Card Counter Reviews
If you want a slow, dreary, film with uninspired acting well we couldnt tell you how it finished. This review describes the film.
if i could give it 0 i would.
Started out intriguing but slowed down and got boring fast. It's no Cincinnati Kid. If the main character has to explain what he's doing, who cares. Isaac, who I like, is pretty emotionless - maybe the card counting carries over to his character and makes him borderline dull. Haddish is wasted in an underwritten role. The "ending" derails and both makes little sense and involves things Isaac should've seen coming a mile away simultaneously. Schrader's a bad director and hasn't written a good script since "Taxi Driver". Without Scorsese as an Executive producer, I doubt this even gets made. It probably shouldn't have. Save your money.
Terrible. Waste of time
Great acting good photography and music. Plot is at times intense and interesting others it loses tension and it becomes rush and confusing
Intense. Great acting. Heavy story pacing intentionally slow.
boring. slow. not enough plot to keep interest.
it had that good slow burn that I like but I feel they could have showed how Mr. Issac transitioned to card counting expert a little more exactingly. He got good at his craft but no way he was good out of the gate. They didn't have time to develop that though. and nothing against Tiffany Haddish but I didn't understand why she was there which left me feeling her part was manufactured just to make her a part of the story. a bit disconnected, but she did play her role very well. like most comic actors, they nail dramatic roles when given a chance.
So slow and horribly written. Plotline left many gaps and questions. Oscar's acting, as always was fabulous, but disappointed in Tiffany's debut in drama. Kept wanting to push fast forward on my remote, but in the theater and did not have one. I really want my money and time back. You should pay me.
Worst movie ever since devil's advocate horrible "plot twist" very obvious ending is horrible. Movie has no plot
Very slow. Had potential then went to crap. Awful ending
SLOW DEVELOPING, DARK
Weak story line!!!!!!!
I wasn't sure what to expect but it was weird and very disappointing.
The movie had some interesting things going. The end was kind of a letdown as we would usually like to see the hero succeed. Also, the poker game was left unfinished.
It was a very strange story that was hard to understand.
Developed characters
That was almost two hours of my life that I’ll never get back.
Not much action. Pointless focus points. Saved by decent actors not Tiffany
Everything was so slow and boring..We walked out of the movie halfway..Wasnt going anywhere.