Wild Card **
Dir: Simon West. With: Jason Statham, Michael
Angarano, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Hope Davis. 92 mins. Cert: 15
This should have
confirmed Jason Statham’s upward career mobility: it’s fabled screenwriter
William Goldman’s second big-screen pass at his own novel Heat, which sees The Stath, assuming a sometime Burt Reynolds role
as a Vegas gambler who falls foul of the Mob, trading lines (if not blows) with
a half-dozen or so legit performers. It emerges, alas, as a compromise, hedging
its bets between cheery, characterful Ocean’s-ish
caper and brute-force beat-‘em-up; we’re offered traces of both, and yet not
enough of either to satisfy. Notable faces (Sofia Vergara, Jason Alexander,
Anne Heche) vanish without trace, and Our Jase struggles with Goldman’s
distinctly American, hard-boiled dialogue. Pity.
Wild Card is now playing in cinemas nationwide.
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