Wild Card (2015)
this movie is based on the life of gamblers in the city of Los Angeles who use gambling as a means of survival, and the troubles they face from the underworld.
1 February 1981, Stockton, California, USA
23 September 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
3 December 1987, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
6 June 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 November 1970, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
25 May 1969, Aurora, Ohio, USA
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
11 August 1971, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
21 January 1985, Munster, Indiana, USA
4 April 1981, Santa Monica, California, USA
February 24, 2016
This is a snappily-edited film that finds a surprisingly solid middle-ground between fast action and gangster melodrama.
January 30, 2015
This film's tagline should be "Come for the stabbing, stay for the gabbing!"
January 29, 2015
No stranger to piloting action films, West allows the yarn to unwind at a perfectly measured pace.
December 18, 2015
It ain't anything new, but it's entertaining.
May 22, 2016
Wild Card has a handful of spectacular fights (choreographed by Cory Yuen), sprinkled throughout long stretches of compulsive gambling and macho brooding.
February 04, 2015
It's hard to not feel a slight sense of disappointment when what looks like a steaming hot slab of fresh action filmmaking hot off the grill turns out to be microwaved leftovers.
January 30, 2015
There will be abundant laying waste of unworthy opponents, and the groans you hear will not be his.
March 02, 2016
As Jason Statham action flicks go, this is one of the better ones, but it is still only going to appeal to the fans.
January 29, 2015
Sadly, "Wild Card" is no royal flush, no full house, no three of a kind. A bust is I think the term I'm searching for.
May 01, 2015
Much of the climactic energy is focused on a series of trumped-up, ultraviolent fight sequences. Most of the narrative depth gets lost in the process.
January 29, 2015
Slow-motion knockouts follow, with Mr. Statham as sure-fisted as ever, but the "Expendables" director Simon West can only summon dead air in between.
