When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Various subplots are given short shrift and the whole thing feels more like a Cliff's Notes version of a longer piece than an actual finished motion picture.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
4 Oct 2013
rotten:
The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant.
– Rafer Guzman,
Newsday,
4 Oct 2013
rotten:
It looks like everybody's lying, and that's only because the acting is pretty bad.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
4 Oct 2013
fresh:
The mannered speech is fun, the players are charismatic, and director Brad Furman maintains an agreeably brisk pace.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
10 Oct 2013
rotten:
The actors hit the jackpot, but only in terms of their paychecks. The audience gets a tension-free, tight-assed, Casino ripoff that leaves them thoroughly fleeced.