Deal
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: April 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
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0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
3
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50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
There's no compelling reason to see Deal. Everything it offers is familiar to the extent where even though it's not a remake, it feels like one. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyTim Grierson
When you're working with clearly conventional material, it helps to attack it from a cockeyed angle or at least adopt a gritty, lived-in urgency, but Deal is fatally earnest. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The main pleasure of this high-stakes-poker drama is watching a septuagenarian Burt Reynolds effortlessly revive his 70s screen persona as a strutting paragon of male shrewdness and sexuality. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Deal doesn't really care about the characters as much as it does the World Poker Championships, where Tommy and Alex end up. Once we get there the movie becomes interesting because Cates understands the game and its dramas a lot better than he understands people and theirs. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The dull production obviously sees itself as an updated "Cincinnati Kid" for the World Poker Tour set, but the end result and its characters have all the originality and dramatic depth of a TV telecast. Read full review
40
VarietyJohn Anderson
Public fascination with Texas Hold 'em and other poker variations will likely bolster B.O., though more discriminating auds may choose to pass. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Moving slowly these days, Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he’s still the best thing in Deal. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
The direction by Gil Cates Jr. is inept at best, and the script by Cates and Marc Weinstock seems to operate under the assumption that trafficking in flabby clichés -- the kindly call girl, the scrappy youngster, the angry dad -- will somehow smooth over the underdeveloped characters. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
To think that a semi-major studio financed a production this low-rent and listless is amazing: Since when did MGM start making student films? Read full review
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