This movie, with fine performances by Macy, Baldwin and up-and-coming Ron Livingston is interesting and well-plotted for the first hour. After that it becomes almost painful to watch, with the final five minutes terminally bad. The premise is that someone can have such bad luck that his mere presence near a gamble on a hot streak will cause the streak to immediately go cold. This strains credulity quite a bit, but when this "cooler" gets a life, he suddenly becomes the opposite of a cooler. This was a bit too much for me, but I could still have lived with it had the ended been more believable and/or understandable.
Give this movie a better ending and you'd really have something. As it is, I'd recommend steering clear of it.
Give this movie a better ending and you'd really have something. As it is, I'd recommend steering clear of it.