User Reviews

I'm lucky, but not in the way The Best of It defines luck. My luck came by running into a person with whom I can swap movie ideas. Somewhere in the conversation he asked, "Ever seen the movie "The Best of It?" He described it as an insight to pro gamblers especially sports based. The film sends one along their profiles with history and conviction all included. What a trip! Not long into the story I recognized there is a whole vocabulary outside normal language to describe what they do. I have some schooling to do to learn their language. One begins to get a feel of their stress level, but that, too, has limits just as the size and number of bets. The fun continues when trying to read their lists of games to cone and how they stand on them (betting wise) now. They don't care who wins but rather, who beats the spread. The movie satisfies on a number of levels: winning, being wrong, staying out of the doghouse, how to live that life, and an opportunity to judge it for yourself. Could you stand up to this heat?

UltraSuperior Media, Phillip Gary Smith, writer.

For such an interesting subject this was stunningly dull. I was excited to ride along with these subjects as they placed actual bets and experience the highs and lows. What I got instead was a bunch of gibberish and technical terms that had no context. I didn't want to just hear these guys talk and wanted to see some of the action. I turned it off after a half an hour since I was so sick of hearing them mumble and still no action.