Gutshot Straight

2014

Action / Crime / Thriller

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 3.6/10 10 2005 2K

poker gambling debt crime boss las vegas gambler

Plot summary

A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.

Director

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Justin Steele

Top cast

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Frank Mir as Fighter #1
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Stephen Lang as Duffy
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Loni Love as Ms. Love
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John Lewis as Nico
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703.45 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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1.25 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by refinedsugar 5 / 10

Drawing to Four Outs

I watched 'Gutshot Straight' solely because of my interest in poker, I appreciate a good gambling movie and that seemed to be what a title like that spells out. I didn't expect much from it which I think benefited my viewing unlike others who thought it was going to be an action trip. It's very much a low level attempt at film noir with merely average results.A down and out poker player in Vegas, Jake (George Eads) gets offered an opportunity to make big money from a wealthy gambler (Stephen Lang). Which soon involves his beautiful wife (AnnaLynne McCord) and it's both readily apparent to the viewer and Jake alike that he's caught in the middle of two people and schemes that could get him killed if he doesn't navigate it correct. Complicating matters is Lewis (Ted Levine) - the wealthy gamblers unhinged brother - who shows up looking for answers and Jake's debt to a local loan shark (Steven Seagal).Here's some notes in case you watched the stylish trailer already ... this isn't an action film. Secondly it's not a legit Steven Seagal movie like some people are talking it up to be. Most of the big faces make brief appearances that were properly shot quickly over a day or two max and the film is trying it's hardest to mask it's low budget. Vinnie Jones plays Seagal's right hand man & muscle and oddly Tia Carrera shows up for one scene only at a casino bar.George Eads (who most people will know from CSI) spends a lot of the movie slinking around in a fedora. The filmmakers don't flash a big obvious sign to tell you he's dumb, but the fact that he loves to chase gutshot straights playing poker, drives a crappy car and is in hock to at least one loan shark says enough. Easy money is never really easy is it?Eads is likeable however as the main character and McCord is easy on the eyes even if she isn't able to completely nail the deceptive femme fatale. All and all, 'Gutshot Straight' was a harmless view. It didn't deliver the gambling movie fix I was hoping for and it doesn't have the right credentials to pull off the noir angle it was intending to accomplish though.
Reviewed by slightlymad22 3 / 10

Fails On Almost Every Level

I just watched Gutshot StraightThis was a bad one Steven SeagalI have to give credit to George Eads, who at least makes for a watchable lead. AnnaLynn McCord is fine as a powerful mans wife, who offers Eads $50,000 to sleep with her!! I don't think it's spoiler territory to reveal he said no!! Seagal is Paulie Trunks (great name) a Las Vegas mobster (at least I think he was a mobster) and is nothing more than a cameo. Vinnie Jones isn't given much to do either.To be honest nothing noteworthy happens and I mentally checked out (within half an hour) and started looking at things on my phone.It fails at being a crime drama and a dark comedy (if that is even what it was aiming for) the dialogue is weak and the plot thin.
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