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Classic Sorkin - Molly's Game review by Champ

I love Aaron Sorkin's work, and have done ever since the West Wing. This has smart, sassy characters, saying smart sassy things, and weaves a complex plot in and out and around, keeping the viewer engaged and intrigued

Interesting story - Molly's Game review by DB

Disagree with the negative reviews for this film. Engaging story with excellent acting. You don't need to know the mechanics of poker to enjoy the film. We thoroughly enjoyed the film and felt sympathy for the lead character from the beginning. Would recommend completely.

Jessica Chastain’ s Breasts - Molly's Game review by CP Customer

Apart from a few fairly noteworthy scenes with Idris Elba and Kevin Costner, my one, or should I say two, lasting memories of this quite ordinary movie are in my review title. Some of the verbal exchanges are satisfying but this is a Aaron Sorkin film.

smart and fast paced - Molly's Game review by CP Customer

A smart film which carried the viewer along at a fast pace without necessitating the need to know anything much about poker. The acting was great and the characters (and their relationships) were plausible and interesting. I liked the commentary and I enjoyed the story in general.

Read the book instead - Molly's Game review by Alphaville

In director Aaron Sorkin’s own words, this is ‘a poker movie’. If you don’t like poker, give it a miss. If you don’t like incessant voiceover, give it a miss. Molly is a poker hostess. Her prattling, quick-fire voiceover, telling us everything we’re watching on screen, is a pain. Sometimes it’s more like listening to an audio book than watching a movie. Sorkin has previous in this, as a writer on The West Wing, but while verbosity may work on TV it rarely does on film.

Another mistake is having the film’s structure alternate between a present-day court case and flashbacks of how Molly got there. This is never a convincing plot ploy. Giving the end game away merely makes the flashbacks predictable. There are even further pointless flashbacks to her childhood with her father. One suspects the script stays too loyal to the real-life Molly’s autobiography. The poker-game flashbacks zip along pacily enough if you’re interested, but the whole film lacks drama and amounts to little.

Jesse James again - Molly's Game review by NC

Suppose have to go for a 3 as Idris is good in it.

Supposedly based loosely on fact........bit like the drugs films, like Blow, tends to make heroes of people that make huge amounts of money out of criminal rip-off activities that ruin thousands of lives and families.

Jesse James again. He was a very nasty criminal. Billy the Kid shot people in the back, from a distance, with a rifle, then robbed them.

This lady scammed millions from an underworld activity including/using drugs and prostitution. The film then sets her up as some laudable example of how to pick yourself up, and make free money.............the American Dream!

All these films are about nasty people..........entertaining perhaps, but good role model??

Idris character excellent lawyer, made lot of money getting her off....................should have gone inside.............

Good Saturday Night Movie. - Molly's Game review by CS

The premise is a woman who starts off with goal of being an Olympic Skier, but ends up being drawn into the world of Poker Gambling because it makes her lots of money! So the theme here really is greed, avarice and getting one over on everyone else! I found it difficult to have any sympathy for the woman, given what she did, the fact that she made so much money but it was never enough and even when her life is threatened she still feels the need to make even more! Whilst it is a very long film and drags in parts,it also picks up the pace again, Idris is excellent and really the question is who really is the start of this film? There is a lot of cutting back to her teens, the current and again the past when she was setting up the gambling rings, so a lot of chopping and editing which gets quite confusing at times. All the Poker Jargon will go right over your head and is meaningless to most people, which may also lose a few on the way! All in quite a good film, but all the Skiing cutting back to her teenage life was a bit superfluous.