I wonder why this movie didn't get me as much as I thought it would when I rented it. It is a nice movie, with a fine message, a good cast, an interesting story but something was missing and I don't know what it is. Maybe I watched William H. Macy too often as a loser, maybe there were one or two plot holes too many in the story, maybe this very story was too banal after all. Anyway, it is an okay movie to watch it, to see a good Macy, a fine Bello (an actress we want to see more of) and a splendid Alec Baldwin giving a career-defining performance as a brutal casino-boss realising just how hollow and unhappy he is. But I still wonder: what was missing?
Review of The Cooler
