Lucky You is made over 40 years after the Steve McQueen classic, The Cincinnati Kid and it certainly is the obvious one to compare it to.
Poker is now a spectator sport and skill at the table is not good enough, you have to be a media star as well. When The Cincinnati Kid challenged Lancey Howard for the poker championship it was in a closed hotel room and for the approval and admiration of their peers. Neither Steve McQueen or Edward G. Robinson were performing before the camera.
That's all changed now, a real father and son, Robert Duvall and Eric Bana are bitter rivals at the game and in life. They've got a lot of family issues to work out as well as who's top dog at the poker table.
As Duvall says, Bana has it reversed, he plays the game of life like he should play his cards. His kid is one reckless dude and he barely makes the money he needs to get a seat at the televised World Series of poker.
Duvall and Bana do manage in the film to flesh out a pair of real life people before the final third of the film shifts to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Still I kind of miss McQueen and Robinson, but Lucky You will have to do.
Poker is now a spectator sport and skill at the table is not good enough, you have to be a media star as well. When The Cincinnati Kid challenged Lancey Howard for the poker championship it was in a closed hotel room and for the approval and admiration of their peers. Neither Steve McQueen or Edward G. Robinson were performing before the camera.
That's all changed now, a real father and son, Robert Duvall and Eric Bana are bitter rivals at the game and in life. They've got a lot of family issues to work out as well as who's top dog at the poker table.
As Duvall says, Bana has it reversed, he plays the game of life like he should play his cards. His kid is one reckless dude and he barely makes the money he needs to get a seat at the televised World Series of poker.
Duvall and Bana do manage in the film to flesh out a pair of real life people before the final third of the film shifts to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Still I kind of miss McQueen and Robinson, but Lucky You will have to do.