Strap yourself in folks, this is 88 minutes of your life watching a man change his life around to become boring! I'll try and do a very brief summary of the plot so you can save yourselves from watching it.
Eddie is a gambling addict who parks cars for a living. His life is turned around when his friend Michael (i'm not sure if you can call him friend...basically this guy is sitting in his kitchen when he comes home and he looks like the kind of person who would consider killing your grandmother) offers to pay him $10,000 for looking after a duffle bag while he's in prison. Then the rest of the film is Eddie gambling half the money in the duffle bag, working for his brother's landscape gardening company, getting a girlfriend, and then miraculously winning all the money back playing poker but realising that he is a changed man and wants to keep his very average life with his hot girlfriend and 9-5 job (whoopee!).
Thoughts: There was no climax, there was no disruption in his relationship with his girlfriend even though we were lead to believe early on that Eddie is not good in relationships, there was talk about making an app in a climactic moment which was never pursued, and he became a LANDSCAPE GARDENER even though he hated doing it (by the way to all the landscape gardeners out there I think it's a necessary and honourable profession that you do, however in an inspirational 'life-changing' film a landscape gardener is not what you become).
I got more pleasure eating a six-pack of stale snickers bars - and I don't really like snickers.
Afterthought: "Nick Miller: turning lemonade into lemons since 1981." - I used to like you Jake Johnson...I used to like you.
Eddie is a gambling addict who parks cars for a living. His life is turned around when his friend Michael (i'm not sure if you can call him friend...basically this guy is sitting in his kitchen when he comes home and he looks like the kind of person who would consider killing your grandmother) offers to pay him $10,000 for looking after a duffle bag while he's in prison. Then the rest of the film is Eddie gambling half the money in the duffle bag, working for his brother's landscape gardening company, getting a girlfriend, and then miraculously winning all the money back playing poker but realising that he is a changed man and wants to keep his very average life with his hot girlfriend and 9-5 job (whoopee!).
Thoughts: There was no climax, there was no disruption in his relationship with his girlfriend even though we were lead to believe early on that Eddie is not good in relationships, there was talk about making an app in a climactic moment which was never pursued, and he became a LANDSCAPE GARDENER even though he hated doing it (by the way to all the landscape gardeners out there I think it's a necessary and honourable profession that you do, however in an inspirational 'life-changing' film a landscape gardener is not what you become).
I got more pleasure eating a six-pack of stale snickers bars - and I don't really like snickers.
Afterthought: "Nick Miller: turning lemonade into lemons since 1981." - I used to like you Jake Johnson...I used to like you.