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Wild Card

Wild Card (2015)

January. 30,2015
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5.6
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R
| Action Thriller Crime

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

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matthew-robertson002
2015/01/30

This flick can't figure out where it wants to go. So it goes nowhere really

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Aridas Brikas (Abricos)
2015/01/31

The one true merit of this film is the unusual feeling it gives to you. It goes deep. Deep, that it is hard to recognize it at first. Soon, it starts growing into an overwhelming feeling, but it shifts back into a comfortable feeling at the very right time and alleviates the intensity. The balance of this and its originality makes the film very memorable, in contrast with some other films in which the feelings become very burdensome and make you suffer.Cinematography was adequate, could notice some pleasing to the eye shots. Nonetheless, there were no memorable cinematography parts. Didn't feel any discomfort because of editing. The text at the beginning looked great. Fight scenes were comfortable to watch (in a way that it is good). I am a big fan of Jason Statham, his acting and accent, so I enjoyed his show.The main detriment of this film is the ending. I sometimes have a hard time understanding deep movies, but here it felt like the ending was a drive for the whole plot to continue. Sadly, it ended there. It didn't convince me that Nick had found a solution to his life. One minute I was going to give this film a 9/10, but the other this minus changed everything instantly. Another negative aspect of this movie is its lack of little details that relate throughout the movie. I find them very pleasant and it makes the movie look rich. Nevertheless, the movie has some interesting quotes. Lastly, many characters were introduced in the story and all of those people had decisive influence to the plot. The drawback is that there were only a very brief or no insight about the reason of their relationship with Nick. Many unrevealed side stories made the film lack reason.Overall, I assigned the movie a high value mostly because of the uniqueness in the taste, feeling and because of the adequate execution of film making.

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Uriah43
2015/02/01

"Nick Wild" (Jason Statham) is a bodyguard who lives and works in Las Vegas because he is essentially down on his luck and doesn't have the money to start life anew. At least he doesn't think so. Then one night when a female friend named "Holly" (Dominik García-Lorido) is brutally raped and beaten he decides to help her get revenge--even though he knows it is going cause him big trouble once everything is said and done. Even worse, this particular problem also spills over onto an innocent client by the name of "Cyrus Kinnick" (Michael Angarano) who has hired Nick in order to avoid trouble. Now, rather than reveal any more I will just say that I happened to like this film because it had a decent plot, nice action and a couple of likable characters who happen to be mired in a dismal situation and are struggling with their own insecurities and inner demons. At least, that is how it seemed to me. In any case, I thought this was an enjoyable film and I have rated it accordingly. Above average.

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Paynebyname
2015/02/02

This is another team effort between Simon West and Jason Statham after they worked on the Mechanic and also Expendables 2 (the best one in the trilogy in my mind).I enjoyed the whole film. All the characters were interesting and as much as I like the great fight scenes I also enjoyed seeing an unexpected Stanley Tucci, Sofia Vergara (looking incredible) and lots of Vegas shots.I thought the film captured well the whole Vegas scene and I liked the scenes of Statham gambling and interacting with other characters.I like Statham and this has to be one of the most entertaining of his films that I've seen in a long time.I don't know why this has received poor ratings. It's entertaining, it's engaging and it's a Jason Statham film, what exactly were people expecting from a Statham film?Worth checking out if you have a remote interest in Mr Statham. I watched it at 3.30am and it kept me awake (which is always a good indicator in my mind!)

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