I really enjoyed this film as I watched it for the first time last night. I loved the cast, and was waiting expectantly, to see where the story would go... but it never really developed, and suddenly just cut itself short with some unbelievable story wrap-ups. That is, Sydney meets some desitute hitchhiker at a truck stop diner, and takes him under his wing, to teach him to gamble, but we don't see much, and then in the end, turns out Sydney had murdered his father, which was why he was doing this... it didn't make any sense, in reality, and just seemed like a cheap-shot writing job to make a movie out of pity little story. What a waste of such a good cast.
Review of Hard Eight
