A pair of gamblers meet and become friends. One of them is in debt so they go to Reno and gamble some more.
An artfully made nothing. The pacing was noticeably slower than the current 4 second average shot length trend. Calling the plot sparse would be an extreme understatement. Some stuff does happen like when the angry poker player reappears. Characters were written very well. The 2 main protagonists made a great "straight man funny man" team. I think that lots of the dialogue was added after filming by voice-over. Locations looked good to me. There seemed to be a good mix of seedy and reputable gambling establishments. Camera-work was amazingly artful. There were some longer shots of the main characters in crowds that looked best to me. Audio was correctly mixed, but sometimes a little too busy. IMDb has a rating of 7.3/10 for this, AllMovie has it at 4/5 site and user ratings and Rotten Tomatoes lists 93% Tomatometer with 84% audience score for an average of 82%. Although that is lower than I would grade, it's in the neighborhood. I rate this good. You should watch it if you pay attention to cinematography.
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