Fresh
This brash little indie is oddly endearing and fun to be around.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Poolhall Junkies
It's your shot. Take it.
2002 · 1h 39m · R
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Mars Callahan
Overview
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Whatever you want to say about this Mars Callaghan -- who is an avid cue-man in real life -- he would seem to be able to sink anything. Darned if he doesn't make this whole movie disappear.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
As a director, Callahan wants the verve that Martin Scorsese brought to The Color of Money, but his visual approach is careless, relying too much on cliched slo-mo and hasty edits.
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail
Rotten
[A]ll of it just seems so familiar and so trite, we know exactly where this is going.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
90 minutes of slow-leaking, macho stomach gas, in which everyone talks like they were on brawny pills and every tawdry song on the soundtrack makes you feel as if you were trapped in a lap dance club.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
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