![]() He seems to just roll with the punches, acting always in accordance with the plot and never with any real sense of moral judgement. McDermott is likeable enough, thanks to Damons seemingly effortless charm, but he readily spouts analogical poker philosophy in place of any real applicable wisdom. Although Damon does his best to convey a type of personality that might be attracted to a life of full-time cards, hes not really given much in the way of a subjective story to tell. Worm is clearly a questionable influence (as if the name werent a signifier) and it doesnt take much for him to dissuade Mike from his poker abstinence. Clean for nine months, it isnt long before Mike meets up with Worm (Norton) whos fresh from a stint in prison. ![]() After squandering his life savings in a back alley high-stakes poker game, Mike McDermott (Damon) quits the tables, losing himself in his law degree. Director John Dahl drops his previous film noir sensibilities to deliver this almost cautionary (but not quite) expose into the scathing lives of card sharks. At the epicentre of the sudden wave of fandom that saw even clothing outlets stocking poker sets in the gift section, Rounders tells the story of two street-smart grifters ( Matt Damon & Ed Norton) scratching a living out of New Yorks underground card circuit.
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