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...real juggler behind all this is Ashby himself Abetted by his screenwriters (AI Schmaltz and star Jon Voight), he has concocted a rather simple story about an unlucky gambler who run off to Vegas, chasing a dream, and being chased by two New York thugs The problems arise when Schmaltz and Voight try to justify their hackneyed plot by throwing in a number of complex issues: illusion, self-destruction, friendship, loyalty, and fatherhood. And they try to squeeze all this into a comedy format. As a result, none of these admittedly interesting themes is explored fully, nor are they ever...
...film follows Alex (Voight), a slick and very nervous man with an obsession for poker chips Like all compulsive gamblers, Alex plays to lose, 20 minutes into the movie, he has won 59,000 and lost 519,000 Under pressure to repay the 510,000 he borrowed to stay in the poker game, Alex skips town with his friend Jerry (Burt Young) and heads for Vegas, the Lind of silk and money...
...Voight makes up for his shortcomings as a screenwriter by delivering a very vibrant performance. He takes the rather stereotypical Alex of the script and somehow elevates him to a level of credibility. Voight tempers Alex's overbearing enthusiasm and self-absorption with a subtle vulnerability. The softness of his eyes and the nervous twitches of his hyperglycemic body reveal Voight's talents as an actor, if not screenwriter...
Screenplay by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight...
...documentary film to approach the war with any pretensions to seriousness and the results were pretty sad. With Bruce Dern as a fired-up army officer, Jane no-that's-not-me-in-the-love-scene-but-that-was-me-in-Barbarella Fonda as his wife and Jon Voight as a crippled vet, everyone is too damn earnest. The depth of the emotional struggles in the movie makes Ordinary People look like a model of complexity. And when Dern bares his buns for that catharsis/baptism, you want to vomit. Any ninth-grader could have written that...