a5c7b9f00b Jake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He's rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years, he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can't play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down. Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences. OK, one hour after saw it. Still fighting with some questions in my head, but I will see it one more time for sure! My impressions: Guy Ritchie shows with his movie, that modern cinema should not just be entertainment - in the meaning of just sitting in front of the screen with nothing in your head. It is kind of interactive movie, making you think about lots of things on the one side and find the answers of some open questions on the other. And there are many possible interpretations of the whole story too - I have 3 theories by now! :) GR shows too, how far he can go with his directing techniques he used. OK, I would agree with some comments, he may took a couple of ideas from other movies like Kill Bill or Fight Club - thus one point minus! The other point minus is for the movie's complexity, it's not for the wide audience… that makes many people to dislike it.<br/><br/>So, I am pleasant surprised by GR and definitely liked the movie, and will have to see it again - for some clearance and theory proof. ;) Give it a chance and watch it. Then think about it… and watch it again! And find your hidden enemies ;) Heady Movie that makes you ache. That is called a Headache. But the pain is not limited to that region of the Body. You will also endure stomach distress and a disillusionment of Philosophical and Spiritual Inspiration.<br/><br/>It is ironic that the main message here is the danger of Ego. The Director doesn't even get His own Message. This is a self-indulgent, incoherent, pretentious, Picture that starts by making little sense and goes on by making even less.<br/><br/>The Movie is repetitive and repulsive using famous Quotes from famous figures of Psychology, Philosophy, and some Self-Helpers and Big Thinkers. After seeing this Mind-Numbing display of desperate showiness and ridiculous ramblings mated with much ado about the kitchen and the sink, you might actually need to seek Guidance just to get re-centered.<br/><br/>This is a Gangster Movie and it is a crime that the Director makes this a Violent, bloody Film and Marries it with ramblings on Enlightenment and it spawns a Childlike Creature that resembles a deranged Late Night 1-900-TV-Hotline for Philosophical Psychos . It is New-Age for Dummies and a Brainless, confusing, Crime Movie that pretends to have one.<br/><br/>Although it does look Snazzy. It is a "thriller" without thrills, constructed in a meaningless jumble of flashbacks and flash-forwards and subtitles and mottos and messages and scenes that are deconstructed, reconstructed and self-destructed. I wanted to signal the projectionist to put a gun to it.
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