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The main pleasure of this high-stakes-poker drama is watching a septuagenarian Burt Reynolds effortlessly revive his 70s screen persona as a strutting paragon of male shrewdness and sexuality. Writer-director Gil Cates Jr. also gives him a halfway interesting character to play, a former poker star who's given up competition to keep his devoted wife (Maria Mason) but gets pulled back into the game mentoring a clever young college champ (Bret Harrison, who barely registers). As you might guess, this rips off The Color of Money (1986) with poker instead of pool, and there are cameo appearances by such TV poker stars as Vincent Van Patten, Antonio Esfandiari, and Phil “the Unabomber” Laak. A product of the recent poker craze, this can't compare with the movie that helped launch it, John Dahl's tense Rounders (1998). PG-13, 86 min.
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