I have never liked Will Farrel, who plays Scott here, and this movie has proved it yet again. His ill humour and stupidly acting funny gives me yuck and what an idiot, but this movie was even more stupid than ever.
Although the trailer looks quite fun, but don’t be fooled guys, this movie is nothing short of dark, bitter, stupid, moraless and fantasy world.
The story is absolutely hollywoodish and tries to be even more, but utterly fails as I will describe it below:
The stiry kicks off on an innocent note. Scott and Kate go to Bucknell University which seems quite elegant, as their daughter is about to take admission it. Alex is their daughter. Parents are funny, goofy and quite close with their daughter. But unfortunately for her, she loses her scholarship of 50 million$ which absurd. To accumulate her the money she needs to study, the parents get together with their friend Frank, whose lost his wife due to his gambling addiction, quite a plot it seems. Frank wants to get his wife and self esteem back. So they open an illegal casino in their half full house in a pleasant, generic suburban town. This is obviously dangerous move in desperation. The aim to win always and secure the won money.
The movie gets sick when we see what they do to earn more money. They do terrible things, induce their locals to take frightening action involving axe multilation, fight club, gambling on these fights, encountering strangest people, and beat each other bloody.
The movie lacks logic and hypocrisy as law enforcement is strange and billigerant.
For pleasant viewing it has bits of Walking Dead, Snoop Dogg and Sopranos. This movie has enough guts to show the truth though, to show us the hidden agenda, that today we are not perfect, we are definitely not civil, we are beasts in fact, as we always try to feed on the weak, people who are below us. The only way to save ourselves and survive is to do the unthinkable, have guts and punch our way through it.
This movie is friendly in many ways, but not for tenderhearted people.