"Croupier" is thinking-person's noir, very much like "Spanish Prisoner" or "House of Games" or "Hard Eight." The voice over doesn't 100% work, but has some rationale as literally a writer's voice.
While Clive Owens' intense performance is the primary reason to see the film, it does provide the opportunity to again see Alex Kingston in a role almost as sexy as in TV's "Moll Flanders." It has a nicely complex plot that reverses and turns in and around and keeps you guessing and then swirls back again.
It is worth seeing on a big screen.
(originally written 5/2/2000)(revised 3/29/2008 as my version submitted on 30 November 2005 offended someone)
While Clive Owens' intense performance is the primary reason to see the film, it does provide the opportunity to again see Alex Kingston in a role almost as sexy as in TV's "Moll Flanders." It has a nicely complex plot that reverses and turns in and around and keeps you guessing and then swirls back again.
It is worth seeing on a big screen.
(originally written 5/2/2000)(revised 3/29/2008 as my version submitted on 30 November 2005 offended someone)