TL;DR – There could have been a good film here, but it gets lost in the mess of two competing ideas.
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene
Disclosure – I paid for the Stan service that viewed this film
Poker Face Review –
One of the things about reviewing films that can be frustrating is when you get a movie where you can see promise in there, but the final product just falls flat. You feel for the filmmakers because they were so close to finding something unique, but you must review what you get at the end of the day. Well, on that front, let's look at Poker Face.
So to set the scene, we open in on a bunch of kids playing cards, jumping off cliffs, running from bullies, and being there for each other. Many years later, the leader of the group, Jake (Russell Crowe), is visiting a local shaman (Jack Thompson) in the bush and asking his lawyer Sam McIntyre (Daniel MacPherson), to arrange some trust accounts and an extraordinary evening. Soon Michael Nankervis (Liam Hemsworth), Alex Harris (Aden Young), and Paul Muccino (Steve Bastoni) are all racing up the coast in sports cars to make it to Jake's luxury oceanside holiday house. The childhood friends will play a high-stakes poker game, but secrets are about to escape.
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