Movie #200 "Owning Mahoney" is like watching paint dry, quiet, dull, repetitive I usually like heist films, and that's what looked appealing about this --- some unassuming guy taking the mafia and a bank for the ride. I wish I got all the ins and outs on gambling, and embezzling, because I might have liked this film a bit more. So if you know a lot about "the art of betting," this film might be for you, and the reason I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. I usually like whatever Hoffman does, but not this. It's just really sad , not emotional sad but the kind of sad I feel when I walk through casinos in Vegas and see a better, leaning on a machine, putting in one coin after another after another.........and on and on and on. A desperate life I do not and don't care to understand.
Average rating: 3.332
I gave it 2 stars
Owning Mahowny
(2003) R
Quiet and unassuming Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an assistant bank manager with a penchant for gambling and a talent for embezzling, is the unlikeliest of men to rise up against two of the most powerful financial institutions around: the bank and the casino. But that's precisely what he does -- right under his girlfriend's (Minnie Driver) nose. John Hurt co-stars in this crime drama that Roger Ebert ranked one of 2003's best movies.
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