All In – The Movie

February 26, 2008 | Posted by admin

I watched this just to prove I’ll watch anything poker related. For some reason Pokerstars sponsored it. OK here goes. The annoying girl from Alpha Dog (the one who was pissed that the 15 year old kid was kidnapped) is the star. Her dad, Mike Madsen from Reservoir Dogs, taught her how to play cards. Then he drove off a cliff and died. So the annoying girl, named Ace, is in med school. She meets up with some local poker players. They go to the ALL IN CASINO and she plays cards. At one point she has pocket aces, some other guy has (I believe) kings, another guy jacks, then someone else Q10. The board is A K J. They all move all in. She winds up winning the hand with a boat. I can’t shake this feeling that one of the other players actually had quads and they ignored the fact, I’ll have to watch it again. You can tell this is another one of those “let’s cash in on the poker craze” movies as elements of it don’t make sense. For instance, Ace knocks out some player in the qualifying tourney for the ALL IN Poker Tournament at the ALL IN Casino put on by ,who else, Pokerstars then the guy she knocks out winds up at the final table even though only the top 2 players qualified for the final table. Guess they’ll attach their name to anything. Basically Ace whines at everyone about the difference between right and wrong the whole movie just like she does in Alpha Dog. Those kinds of people really bug me for some reason.

This is not a good poker movie. Hell, its not a good movie at all. I walked out to smoke cigarettes several times. Then again if you’re like me and you have to see every poker movie or every Michael Madsen movie (I even have the first film he was ever in where he stuggles as an alcoholic or something, I bought it for $1) then you’ll have to pick this up.

Hey, guess what, if you order this movie after clicking on the link above, I’ll get a 4% commission! With a price of $4, that’s like well um…. 0.16 whole cents. Unless 6 of you order, then I’ll get 6%, a whopping 0.24 cents! Aren’t you glad I disclosed that to you?

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