Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

jimbo-53-186511 As part of his initiation, rookie detective Stan Jeter (Beau Mirchoff) takes part in a poker night with some of the best and most experienced cops in the business. Whilst participating in Poker Night our rookie detective must listen to stories from each of the officers highlighting their best arrests, their best achievements or their best examples of heroism. Initially, Jeter takes these stories with a pinch of salt until he finds himself the victim of a kidnapping by a vicious psychopath. Jeter must use all that he's learnt from his more experienced colleagues to try to escape from the mad man whilst he simultaneously tries to rescue a young girl who has also been kidnapped by the psychopath.Poker Night is a mix between Saw and Training Day which are two films that I found to be enjoyable and both of these 'aspects' of the plotting were strong enough to hold my interest in the story. Unfortunately, when I watch a film and instantly identify similarities between the film I've watched and similar films that have preceded it (particularly similar films that I've really liked) then it's hard not to cast a critical eye over a film like Poker Night....The structure of the film was something that I found it hard to get used to and, for me, Poker Night seemed to suffer from what I like to call a 'Stop/Start' narrative. What I mean here is that I felt as though every time the picture started to gather momentum (i.e focusing on the kidnapping) the picture would then Stop (by going back to the storytelling). The idea behind this film is that our rookie is supposed to put theory into practice in order to get the better of the man that kidnapped him based on the life experiences of his senior colleagues. However, I just never really felt like there was much of a connection between the stories that Jeter is being told by his colleagues and the way that Jeter tries to deal with the kidnapper. To me Poker Night came across as one part philosophical character studying and one part torture porn, but the 2 elements never really seem to fuse together and never felt as though they were part of the same story. This results in a film that, at times, is sluggish during its storytelling mode, but when the focus is on Jeter and the kidnapper it is much livelier and engrossing. I don't have a problem with talky sections of films if they serve a purpose, but as I've already mentioned I just didn't feel that connection here.I've touched upon the fact that this film reminded me of Saw and Training Day, but it sadly comes off as a poor man's version of each of these films. It lacks Saw's intelligence and doesn't have the intense storytelling that we saw in Training Day. To compensate for this, the film tries to be clever by tying itself in knots with twist after twist towards the end which to be honest started to become increasingly more far-fetched and ridiculous as the film reached the finish line. The open-ended finale leaves it open for a sequel which is questionable to me given the fact that this first film is only good rather than being brilliant.To me Poker Night is at its best when the focus is on Jeter, the kidnapper and the girl as these scenes provide us with some intensity and excitement. I would have preferred it if the film would have been more of a battle of wits/race against time horror/thriller (which is how it was sold on Sky Movies). Sadly, the storytelling aspect of the film is episodic, a bit tedious and for the most part feels unrelated from the action. A good film thanks to a number of well-executed and intense set-pieces, but not the brilliant film that it could, and should have been.

politehere First of all, what I really liked about this movie was the cinematography. It was very well shot. It took me a while to get what was going on, because the story was being delivered in chunks. This is one of those movies where you see the ending in the beginning of the movie and then the protagonist goes on to tell you how he got there. The initial confusion was a bit annoying, but that's the style of this movie. What I disliked the most were the actors. The protagonist could have been a more well-known actor such as Jason Statham instead of this young rookie in his twenties. The other actors could have been selected from among more good-looking actors, too. I'm one of those who care about how the actors look. It had elements of horror in it; i.e. torture. Some of the torture scenes were too violent for this genre, but not too explicit as to make you want to cover your eyes or anything.Another factor that could have made this movie more memorable was going for a twist, a surprise ending like in the 2003 movie "Identity". For a moment I thought there was a twist ending and I almost turned off the TV. I wish I had done that, because it didn't end and the ending was a little disappointing and the movie dragged a bit.In spite of these flaws, I think this movie is well worth watching.Final Score: 7/10

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...

Chen Hong Ter Terrible show, lots of bad acting especially the main actor who looks like a useless kid thats in high school. story line was bad, trying to give the wow effect like other movies like shutter island but failed terribly. would not recommend anyone to waste their time to watch this. U will regret. tried to be mind f@23king but turned out to be just sheet. The whole show is illogical and many of the parts were about him making stupid decisions again and again contradicting with the main theme of the movie of not making same stupid mistakes which pisses me off even more. You. Sarkk. Movie. Terrible. Wasted. My. Time. 12345678909876543212345ui987654323456787654323456765432