Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Turtle Heart As of this review, we are into episode 6 of this series. I still have no idea what the series is about. There is an underlying hint of something, but it is so vague and undefined. My reaction at this point is what are Hoffman and Nolte even doing in this series? For one thing, their voices are so garbled and aged, they really need subtitles when these two guys are on screen. So far, their presence makes no sense. On the other hand, the supporting cast is really great and their stories are the only thing driving the story to this point. Dennis Farina is great in this series as the sidekick for Hoffman, and it is great to see his star rising. Of course, the horses are really magnificent and it is great to see the scenes where the horses shine. In the art of story telling it is OK I guess to have a slow build up to the point of the story, but in this series the writers have left us with no clear idea as to what the point of the whole story really is. Because of this poor story telling, I have given the series a low rating. Hoffman's character in particular is troubling. The character is so stiff. As the first-billed star of the show, his role is to drive the main story, but it is his role, his intentions, that are so poorly defined as to make the overall story unintelligible at this point. Honestly, take out Hoffman and Nolte and it would be a better story, at least at this point.

MOHawg Or, if an "Emperor/Clothes" metaphor doesn't do it, how about horse racing? In short, a horse (show) with this pedigree (in this case actors + producer + director + HBO) ought to be a lot more fun to watch.If these Students of Acting were trying to re-create a Greek-Chorus-Style-Tragedy for study in post-graduate Theatre, or something that accurately captured the nuances of horse racing / breeding, they did a fine job. If they were trying to create something entertaining to the hoi-polloi (the rest of us), they got scratched at the gate.Being avid fans of Deadwood, Six Feet Under, and the Sopranos; we really wanted to like this. Now, it's "what else is on?"

bob_meg I'm sure this show is engaging for hardcore racing fans. It's obviously well acted and put together. Hoffman? Mann? Nolte? What's not to like?Well, I only watched the first two and couldn't get interested in any of the characters. Look, hard-boiled is fine, but these guys are like granite. I'm sure some of the vulnerabilities and Achilles heels are going to show soon, but I frankly got tired of waiting for it to happen.I'll be the first one to say that most shows are run too "by the books" in that they demand X, Y, and Z in a pilot in order to garner interest from a mass audience, but this show could have benefited from some advise in this department.It's like a completely brilliant software app with a cruddy user interface and no documentation.

savannahkhan Although the first episode of this series was painful to get through, each episode thereafter gets better and better. After an inaudible beginning "Luck" just might careers and an industry.As a horse lover and long time fan of Nick Nolte, I wanted to like this show but the first episode was loaded with track jargon, slang, broken English, low quality sound, and heavy accents. There also wasn't much seen of Nolte in the first episode. Fortunately I had the first 3 episodes programmed on the DVR so I had a vested interest in at least watching these recorded episodes. By the third episode I enabled closed caption so that I could follow better. I wish I had not deleted the first episode because I would have re-watched it in closed caption. This first episode is chock-full of information and innuendos, probably why it was so difficult to get through.This is unfortunate because the series gets better with each episode and I'm sure the lack of clarity in the beginning has meant the series has lost viewers. Viewers should know, however, that Nolte and Dustin Hoffman are not in this series for nothing. Nolte, whose notorious good looks is now replaced with grey hair and lots of character is a nostalgic owner/trainer brokenhearted over the past with a keen sense of a good race horse. Hoffman starts out stiff and almost out of place, but then his character is out of place due to a series of previous events.Integrity and love is really what this series is about. The four gamblers, you find, after a few episodes, really love each other. The jockeys love to ride, Nolte loves horses, and Hoffman loves his right hand man. What seems evident is that some day soon, all of these characters will come together in an as yet unknown common experience.The sound quality of this series is perhaps the only flaw and it's a big flaw. This seems to be common in today's movies and series. You understood every word Bogart said in Casablanca. It is called "projection." Old school directors and actors knew about this. I don't know what happened or why contemporary films ignores the need for people to hear and understand what characters are saying. It's almost as if they think this some type of technique but it isn't and is surely the reason, perhaps the only reason that this show may not get the viewers it deserves. Despite this,I rate this series high which says just how good this series could be.If you love horses, racing, Nolte, Hoffman or Farina, I highly recommend this series, despite the audio issues which I hope, given a second season, they fix. If you love a good race, which there seems to be one in almost every episode, this series is also for you. "Luck," given the chance, may revive the horse racing industry. It reminds you of just why this sport is the "sport of kings." Hope they will fix the audio, first time I can remember sound being such a "handicap."