Deal: Critic Reviews

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Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Deal could use a touch of the slickness that's making the blackjack drama 21 such a greasy hit.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

38

Moving slowly these days, Burt Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he's still the best thing in Deal.
Full Review » 4 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

A product of the recent poker craze, this can't compare with the movie that helped launch it, John Dahl's tense Rounders.
Full Review » 4 years ago
John Anderson Variety (Top Critic)

Deal is perhaps too briskly paced: The narrative moves along a bit too fleetingly for any genuine character development.
Full Review » 4 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

The film has more of a checklist of cliches than an actual script and, when it comes to the cast, director Gil Cates Jr. is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Success isn't in the cards for this plodding poker drama.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

Reynolds doesn't convey any of the lightning bolt insouciance that made him arguably the greatest movie star of the '70s and '80s (really) but rather just stands there.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Kelly Vance East Bay Express

An embarrassingly toothless and endlessly boring story about characters we barely get to know doing things that are more exciting than they make it seem.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Dave White Movies.com

0

Full Review » 1 year ago
Mike Scott Times-Picayune

50

As a piece of entertainment, it's like being dealt a pair of twos: You could certainly do worse, but ...
Full Review » 3 years ago
Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile

It's not the cards you play but the people . . . which is why poker movies (in this case Texas Hold'em) are far more interesting than many sports movies
Full Review » 3 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

40

so gossamer thin that it's hard to feel strongly about it one way or the other
Full Review » 4 years ago
Jules Brenner Cinema Signals

0

There is so little originality here and so much faking it that it hardly justifies critical analysis.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rossiter Drake San Francisco Examiner

63

The outcome is never in question, but for fans of the game, even simulated action is preferable to perfunctory drama.
Full Review » 4 years ago
David Cornelius DVDTalk.com

30

Highly derivative, embarrassingly hollow.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper

They've got to do something else with these poker movies.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

38

...a movie making a brief stop at local theaters on its way to DVD bargain bins and cable showings at two in the morning.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal

34

There are plenty of movies that prove entertaining despite their familiarity; this isn't one of them.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Pete Hammond Boxoffice Magazine

30

Thoroughly predictable in every way including an obvious ending that tries unsuccessfully to bluff the audience, Deal feels fake and trite.
Full Review » 4 years ago
M. K. Terrell Christian Science Monitor

A raft of pros appear as themselves, but this story will likely seem less exciting than an actual competition.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Brian Tallerico The Deadbolt

About now is when a critic would throw in a reference to a low poker hand to compare it to, but Deal can't even rise to a pair of twos.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Alex Markerson E! Online

9

You've got to know when to walk away from a movie like this: right away, and that's only if you can't run.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andrea Chase Killer Movie Reviews

0

There is more complexity in a sub-par episode of the Teletubbies than in anything to be found in Deal
Full Review » 4 years ago
Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat

Director/co-writer Gil Cates Jr. gives us a by-the-numbers execution of a by-the-numbers story, which would barely be movie-of-the-week material but for [Burt] Reynolds's "star power."
Full Review » 4 years ago
Gary Thompson Philadelphia Daily News

17

A poker movie that has the dubious honor of being even worse than Lucky You.
Full Review » 4 years ago