Four Dogs Playing Poker

2000
5.5| 1h38m| en
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With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
ruud-35 I bought this DVD for 2 euro 90 at a gas station. So my expectations where not that high. When i buy a movie like this with some famous actors, I don't expect it to be good, but you never know. Am i watching a mistake of a famous actor. I really love Forest Whittaker, and after watching the movie nothing is changed about that. He probably red the script and saw the possibilities. Anyway Looking from this angle, i always expect to stop halfway the DVD and continue doing something else. Because the price was so cheap, that there would be no other option than a bad movie This movie is indeed not fantastic, the acting is poor and over the top, but it is a movie which keeps you watching. In fact i felt some fear watching the end. So my 2 euro 90 where well spent. But i do agree that the end result could have been much better. Intriguing movie, not very well done, but amusing and worth watching! I still try to understand if i understood the whole movie. But who cares for 2 euro 90
HellBoy13 What's the concept behind the painting "Four Dogs Playing Poker"? Poker is a game of luck, but winning involves bluffing, lying, and aggressiveness. Dogs think they can handle these human traits, but they're just dogs. Predictable. Emotional. Easy tells.This movie is about four childhood friends who are all in danger of dying. To save themselves, they concoct a scheme to sacrifice one of them for the sake of the others. But they want to keep things anonymous to alleviate guilt, and that's where they stop trusting each other. Like four dogs playing poker, trying to figure out the other dogs' motives, not knowing who to trust...The details sometimes fall by the wayside in order to set up this very interesting idea, but I found the story itself to be gripping. I had to watch the whole thing to see what happened.Can you trust YOUR childhood friends if all your lives were on the line?
slim-44 This movie is a complete waste of time. I saw it on Showtime and I feel ripped off for the time spent watching it. As previously mentioned, the plot holes are big enough to drive a Hummer2 through with nooooo problem. *Minor Spoilers************Insurance - I'm sure the check would not have been cut within a day. Not enough time to save their skins.Answering machines - plenty of incriminating evidence left on them.Auto tags - why remove tags after the heist, only to toss them off to side of the street rather than in the water. Then Tim Curry keeps the screws! What the hell was that about?No one thought that MAYBE the Forrest Whitaker character was crying wolf just so that he would not have to pay them?Stupid and dumb movie! I can't believe it has a 6.0 rating. I give it a 3/10 -- and that's probably too generous.
Mickey Knox The idea of this movie is brilliant and it could have led the script towards a totally different perspective of the action. Although some scenes are obviously forced, and higly unlikely, the movie captures you till the end. The dilema, the game to decide the killer and the victim, could have provided much more psychological moments than it actually does, and that would have made the movie better. Unfortunately, after the middle of the film, it becomes a simple action movie with simple and way too predictable events. All in all, a good idea, a nice watch, but it's a pity - it could have been great. Vote: 5 out of 10.