http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx To heck with EVEN MONEY.  I’ll give you three-to-one odds that you won’t enjoy this flick, despite its surprisingly excellent cast.  Whodathunk so many great actors would need cash so badly?  And Kim Bassinger is also in the movie. How bad is the film?  The special features are trailers for other movies.  It’s as though no one connected with EVEN MONEY wanted any further association with it.  No director’s or actors’ commentaries.  No behind the scenes documentary.   Just a: “Let’s slap a couple of trailers on here so no one will feel entirely cheated.  Cheated of course is an appropriate emotion for this film about the evils of gambling.  There are several inter-related tales that sort of come together in the end, a kind of homage to CRASH.  Homage of course is French for “we don’t have a lot of time, so let’s copy something that’s won a lot of awards.”   Story one: Carolyn Carver (Bassinger) is the author of well received first novel who tells her husband Tom (Ray Liotta) that she’s writing her second book in a coffee shop.  All the while she’s really in a casino, slot machining her family’s savings and daughter’s college fund away. Story two: Clyde Snow (Forest Whitaker) is a handyman in debt to his bookies.  They force him to get his younger brother Godfrey (Nick Cannon), a highly-ranked NBA prospect, to shave points in a collegiate conference championship game. Story three: Augie (Jay Mohr) and Murph (Grant Sullivan) are childhood friends who went into business together – as bookies. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx#1853 i didnt think that this was a very good movie . ralphespinoza http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx#1853 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:54:13 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx#2084 VERY DISAPPOINTING WAVELYN http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/10/EVEN-MONEY-Dont-Cash-In-On-This.aspx#2084 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:51:05 GMT