Offical website
Blu-rays, DVDs & more
eBay affliate link
Art of the Movies
Buy posters on MoviePoster.com
IMDb
Lucky You movie stills
Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: [Curtis] Hanson has had a string of fine films, including Wonder Boys, L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile, but Lucky You feels as if it could have been made by anyone. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Movies, like poker, can result in some unexpected combinations. Who knew, for example, that the director of L.A. Confidential and the screenwriter of The Insider and Munich, working together, would add up to a losing hand? Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Like The Hustler, this absorbing Las Vegas story about a professional poker player (Eric Bana) uses gambling to tell a tale of moral regeneration. Read more
Phil Kloer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lucky You is like the old joke about the classified ad: 'LOST DOG. Three legs. Blind in one eye. Missing half his tail. Recently neutered. Answers to Lucky'. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Curiously lifeless, Lucky You feels like poker without stakes; it goes through the motions with nothing to play for. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: This movie has so little to it that you begin to understand why they packed it with so much poker: They had to put something on the screen. But even die-hard Hold'em fans will leave wishing for more. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A mixed-up romantic sports comedy of sorts set in the Vegas poker world. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: In the end, Lucky You lays out poker as a sterile corporate undertaking. For lovers of the game and lovers of the cinema, it's far from a safe bet. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Even though the film features high-wire high rollers and culminates in a championship showdown, at its best it's refreshingly offhanded. It's a hit-and-miss movie that's worth seeing for the hits. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Lucky You lingers at the poker tables, then races through the romance. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The deal was wrong right from the beginning on Lucky You. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Lucky you, I've run out of topical analogies for now, except for this: A decent movie just wasn't in the cards. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: While Lucky You may not stand in the august company of Hanson movies like L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile and the unfairly overlooked In Her Shoes, it is a lot more entertaining than its well-played premise might initially seem. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Lucky You is a curiously ordinary and uninvolving tale from the filmmaker behind such insightful character pieces as Wonder Boys and L.A. Confidential. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A wise, lived-in three-hander with nothing much to claim for itself except a pair of pocket-ace performances and the kind of silver-tongued fast-talk that hasn't been much heard in these parts since Billy Wilder and Ben Hecht hung up their hats. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: At 2 hours and 15 minutes, Lucky You does play a bit long. It's probably about two hours longer than it needs to be. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: An impressive-looking but aimless bluffer, tossing down more angles than it's able to carry through. It doesn't go downhill as much as it staggers and wanders along a craggy slope. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Most of Lucky You, starting with the title, is ordinary or outright awful. Moviemakers, it seems, cannot bluff their way to success. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a weak hand from the filmmaker; not a colossal failure, just a dreary mediocrity. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Lucky You is in the mold of The Hustler and The Cincinnati Kid. But while there is conflict, there is no tension, and while there is plenty of gamesmanship, there is no suspense. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Staying home and playing solitaire would be two levels more interesting than watching this movie, which is directed, or rather embalmed, by L.A. Confidential man Curtis Hanson. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's a ponderous, anemic bore about how to play poker that exploits the trendy gambling fever that is all the rage on the Internet and cable TV, but doesn't have enough energy to keep the most catatonic tournament-poker addict awake. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Lucky You is hardly Mr. Hanson's strongest effort, but it does contain many of his saving graces: a warm regard for his characters, an unhurried pace for his narrative and a grown-up sense of morality. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The whole house of cards collapses into an agreeable sort of predictability. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Best known for L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile, Hanson is an accomplished filmmaker. But you wouldn't know it from this unfocused movie that shows us cardsharps of an unusually dull variety. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Lucky You isn't Hanson's best movie but it's a respectable effort and deserves more of a chance to be seen than the one it's getting. Read more
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News: We get lots of high-stakes poker and too much pulseless drama in Lucky You, the latest movie to wander through the casinos of Las Vegas. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Even if you think you know where Lucky You is headed, there's something pleasurable about watching it unfold. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Unfortunately, somebody seems to have had the idea that Lucky You should be a long movie -- that way, we might take it more seriously, perhaps. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: A solid piece of mainstream storytelling that works as a character study and a love story, even if you don't know a gut-shot straight draw from a nut flush. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: From the opening scene, the movie is flatter than week-old beer. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Made a couple of years ago, Curtis Hanson's Oedipally fraught Vegas dud is only now being unceremoniously dumped for what will certainly be a heartbeat of theatrical life. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: A solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie. Read more
James Mottram, Time Out: While fans of Eric Bana may get a kick out of his meaty, manly performance, Drew Barrymore is a huge mistake. Read more