Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Hulkeasexo
it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
wcb123
I found this film very entertaining. It seems to take various styles of 90's films and roll them up into one, it feels old school but at the same time it remains original and fresh. The blend of genres, its fast moving pace, the surreal flashbacks and the way it's narrated make it feel like it could be based on a graphic novel/comic book.The acting is top notch by everyone and the directing/editing was flawless.63pc is a good score on here but i would personally say it's a 6.9 verging into the early 7's. The RT and Metacritic scores are definitely too low.Watch it, it is fun and at the same time oddly quite disturbing!I'll be keeping an eye out for more of Greg Francis' stuff for sure.
Seth_Rogue_One
Poker Night is the name of the movie but there's not a lot of poker being played in it if there are poker fans out there who might be thinking that this is another ROUNDERS (1998) or something, it's not.It does, just like poker, demand your very full attention to try to figure out what's going on though.I'd call it a mix between UNUSUAL SUSPECTS and SAW.Before I saw it I was wondering why it was labelled a action-movie because the cover and plot summary suggested otherwise to me, but it gets clear quite quick why because even though there aren't a bunch of shootouts or car-chases the pace of the movie is VERY fast. You really need to have your thinking cap with this one it's really not a movie for a late hangover where you just want relaxe your brain cause chances are you will lose the plot and miss a lot of subtle information that passes by, which happened a bit to me but I was able to pick up luckily but I think I might need to watch it at least one more time to fully grasp it.Visually it's gorgeously gritty and acting is fine overall, well worth seeing for sure even though yes it's hard to keep up at times.
petarmatic
Nothing special in this film. I watched it to watch a thriller, but I was disappointed! It was very interesting in the beginning but later it lost sense. I had a problem following the plot so I had to watch this film two times to see did I missed something. I did not. It is just simply bad plot. Nothing special about it. Lots of blood and screaming people, trying to look cool.Acting was not bad, actually it was quite good. Editing and cinematography were not that bad either. I just did not like the film that much. So I recommend that you do not watch this film. Save yourself from a worthless thriller. What a bummer!
jmwhy2012
To me, I watched this film mainly because a friend highly recommended this film, and partly because of the rating here is like 6 out of 10 which apparently not the worst ><Anyways, get back to business. Great things about the film: 1. Setting of the film is pretty refreshing, a little bit feels like a stage in a theatre 2. Being able to tell the story pretty clearly. 3. Damn, those legs of Ms. Sage are fine!!!!Things I personally hated: 1. couple things feel like ripping off from some other WELLKNOWN good films Such as: a) Batman: Begins ---"scarecrow" which happened to be the villain AGAIN, like really? Can't you be more creative?b) Kickass --- the whole Mr. Alby being the mentor & the screenplay, just feels Kickass to me.c) No Country for Old Men ---- "We just pretend they don't exist " to me, that just sound just the point of NCfOM trying to express. This also shows a bit of too much cynicism.d) Silence of the lamb & Se7en ----- The room full of pictures of dead girls, does it remind you some things from those two films?2. Overall the storyline is told clearly, but some does not make sense. 3. Some scenes feel too childish for a thriller. 4. The stories told at the other officers had absolutely nothing to do with the film like at all, just saying "don't ever give up", "ask for a kiss" They can be replaced with other things to make the movie more intense. Oh well, the film is called the Poker Night, isn't it? So I understand but I still think not a good choice of storytelling. Like the guy didn't even use any advice from these cops in any way, then why needed to tell the stories? 5. Storyline is a bit messy as the film just keeps back and forward and back and forth etc, just a little bit needless and pointless.Overall, 3 out of 10 is definitely as high as I can rate this film. If not, only lower not higher.Sorry friend...
