Fourteen minutes of film action was left for watching. The remaining time was long credits. It wasn’t fine initially and was impossible to expect improvements in pointless screenplay from never gave goodness in acting Russell Crowe who became a director and he with non-jagged Stephen M. Coates were involved in scriptwriting of the story, which original work was written by the last.
Crowe’s personage is lost in most length and senseless in the rest. Maybe this was what about film’s title. However, Russell Crowe doesn’t convey a feeling in directing. I couldn’t penetrate into occurring events and personages. Suspense doesn’t present. Crowe thinks that he gives it, but he can’t do that and sometimes he wants it when no reason for this moment of plot. A cameraman Aaron McLisky does a little of pretty shots (as movement of Rolls-Royce) and much of chaotic. If look on list of his works, it is getting of hopelessness due to almost only are short movies. Crowe is zany in director’s chair. He wishes to make a unique shot, but it doesn’t take an interest, has no necessity again and it does meddling into narrating.
Crowe doesn’t properly worked with actors. Liam Hemsworth is impossible for credible performance. Elsa Pataky on whose presence can think it was by invitation by friendship or forced circumstance, because she forgot that she must act at least. Did she prepare for role? She can’t collect cards. And you see in close-up shots that these are not her hands. Pataky does for be a redundant personage, which actually it is. Her commenting of every action is excessive and makes to think that she does, because nobody played Texas hold ‘em before. This, few lines with Crowe’s protagonist and leaving place with a bag of cash are all acts of her character.
The screenplay is green and becomes uncombined by including different twists. Normal reaction on poisoning from everybody. Dialogs with kinks and speaking can be without point and for filling of nothing to say. It ends for me on unacceptable and fantastic involvement of trio of robbers who appear to be and act as trio of comedians.
