Synopsis
Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Kevin SpaceyJack Abramoff
- Kelly PrestonPam Abramoff
- Hannah Endicott-DouglasSarah Abramoff
- Rachelle LefevreEmily Miller
- Barry PepperMichael Scanlon
- Spencer GarrettTom DeLay
- Jon LovitzAdam Kidan
- Eric SchweigChief Poncho
- Yannick BissonOscar Carillo
- Maury ChaykinBig Tony
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
Above all, however, Kevin Spacey is the reason to see Casino Jack. This movie will stand alongside "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty" as examples of what the actor is capable of accomplishing when he is properly motivated. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Slick superlobbyist Jack Abramoff is the colorful subject of Casino Jack a similarly slick and undeniably entertaining true-life D.C. crime story, boasting a robust Kevin Spacey performance. - 63
Rolling Stone
Spacey holds center. He's a bonfire. - 60
Movieline
Hickenlooper too often approaches his subject with the filmmaking equivalent of a wry chuckle. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Though the film is peppered with one-liners tailor-made for Spacey to sling with stinging effect, it doesn't so much leave you laughing as just weary, and wishing this weren't a true story at all. - 50
The New York Times
The plot has so many moving parts - so many envelopes of money, dropped names, half-explained schemes and hasty flights - that it quickly becomes more frustrating than illuminating. - 40
Time Out
This is fertile material for a darkly comic indictment. Instead, we get recycled cynicism (politicians are hypocrites! more dirty money, more problems!) and Spacey's gallery of impersonations-W.C. Fields, Stallone, Reagan-in lieu of a flawed, flesh-and-blood human being. - 40
Village Voice
In the grand finale, Abramoff fantasizes about using a Senate hearing to blow the whistle on the entire corrupt establishment. His rant offers a clue to how this otherwise pointlessly manic movie might have honed its political edge.
