Synopsis
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
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Cast
- Matt DamonMike McDermott
- Edward NortonLester 'Worm' Murphy
- John TurturroJoey Knish
- Gretchen MolJo
- John MalkovichTeddy KGB
- Famke JanssenPetra
- Martin LandauAbe Petrovsky
- Michael RispoliGrama
- Goran VisnjicMaurice
- Mal Z. LawrenceIrving
- 80
The New York Times
Mischievously entertaining...Dahl's film has character in oversupply even if its actual characters are sometimes thin. Poker fever makes up for whatever the story lacks in everyday emotions. - 80
The A.V. Club
Rounders is such a smart, tough little film that its strengths override its fairly serious weaknesses. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Lazy, predictable and even dumb about what happens away from the tables. [11 Sept 1998] - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Richly atmospheric but a little thin in the character department: It feels oddly truncated, despite nicely textured performances. - 60
Rolling Stone
Stylish entertainment and smartass fun when director John Dahl ("The Last Seduction") plays his strong suit (a gifted cast) instead of his weakest (a derivative plot). - 50
Christian Science Monitor
The acting is solid, but the story builds less drama and suspense than its high-stakes subject might lead you to expect. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
It should have been the poker equivalent of "The Hustler." But it suffers from iron-poor blood. No energy. It just lies there. - 40
Salon
Neither Dahl nor most of his actors ever quite convince us that there's a good reason to sit in front of a movie screen watching them for more than two hours.