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THE GAMBLER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paramount Pictures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade:\u00a0 B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0 Rupert Wyatt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenwriter:\u00a0 William Monahan based on the 1974 film \u201cThe Gambler\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0 Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael Kenneth Williams, George Kennedy, Jessica Lange, Richard Schiff, Andre Braugher<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screened at:\u00a0 Paramount, NYC, 12\/2\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opens:\u00a0 December 19, 2014 (limited)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some say that compulsive gamblers who bet more money than they can afford are self-destructive, even suicidal. They actually want to lose, given their self-hate. This is doubtless true for some.\u00a0 In \u201cThe Gambler,\u201d however, scripter William Monahan finds Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) as a guy who gambles despite a losing streak because he wants to live to the limit, to take risks.\u00a0 He has contempt for the comfortable life he was born into with a rich mother, Roberta (Jessica Lange) and a job teaching The Modern Novel to a university class.\u00a0 This is true as well, not only for him but for others of that ilk.<\/p>\n

And this is a subject that lends itself to drama.\u00a0 As director, Rupert Wyatt, whose \u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes\u201d posits super-bright simians, counts on Mark Wahlberg to deliver convincing and exciting portrait of a man who teaches in a large lecture hall by day and drops fortunes in a casino at night.\u00a0 On the podium, he comes across as an associate professor who should be well-liked by his students, principally because he does not stand behind a lectern and deliver from ten-year-old notes.\u00a0 He marches about the hall, picking up a cell phone from one student about to make a call, even sitting in a chair that is meant for students in the middle of the hall.\u00a0 He informs them that you have it or you don\u2019t.\u00a0 Shakespeare, he says in effect, must be one in millions. He had genius.\u00a0 If you consider yourself a writer and you don\u2019t have genius, you will always be middling in the task as he proves himself when his own novel cleared no more than $17,000.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s gambling debts puts him in need of loan sharks, the majordomo of a Korean-owned casino and his own mother.\u00a0 He borrows sums at exorbitant rates from Frank (John Goodman), who takes an interest in the teacher\u2019s future, a Mr. Lee (Alvin Ing), a shark named Neville Baraka (Michael Kenneth Williams), plus a cool quarter million from his mother, who issues the sum with the caveat that it\u2019s the last time she will ever give him money or even want to see him again.\u00a0 The one student in his class who is called the only genius, Amy Phillips (Brie Larson), is naturally flattered by the judgment.\u00a0 As this is a movie, we several steps ahead by knowing what sort of relationship will proceed from there, particularly since Amy, who works in the nightclub as a hostess, knows of her professor\u2019s double.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Gambler\u201d is based on a 1974 film of the same name written by James Toback, a Harvard grad whose gambling compulsion still plagues him today and which he turned into art with the \u201974 picture thereby launching a movie career.\u00a0 (In that film, an NYU professor played by James Caan is an N.Y.U. literature professor.)<\/p>\n

If you are a teacher, you may appreciate the scenes in the classroom even more than those in the casino, particularly when Bennett tells the youths that \u201cI pretend to teach, and you pretend to learn.\u201d\u00a0 This is a cynical view but one that is not unpopular today, as every generation finds fault with those who are the future of America.\u00a0 Mark Wahlberg does not have to show great depth this time around. His acting chops are easily sufficient to match the demands of the role in a film that is entertaining throughout, albeit not extremely credible\u2014particularly those parts that show the title character playing double-or-nothing until he loses everything at the blackjack table in a game that\u2019s almost pure luck.\u00a0 Do we root for Jim Bennett?\u00a0 Knowing his self-destructive character, especially when he borrows enough from his mother to pay off his creditors and yet proceeds to the betting tables, we may be happy to see him lose and may not be too concerned when he is beaten up for his deadbeat ways.<\/p>\n

Rated R.\u00a0 111 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 C+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall – B<\/strong><\/p>\n

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