Y'know, I saw this listed on one of the Showtime channels, and I like poker so I thought I'd give it a glance...Oh man... Look, I'm not one normally to go as far off the deep end in coming down on a film as a lot of people do, but really, All In deserves every bit of blasting that it's getting here (except of course for all of those suspicious gushing posts at the start). This felt to me like it was written by a 14-year old who likes poker but also wanted to make his socio-political "statement" without having any sort of life experience there to make such a statement. This could've been fun if there was some sort of high camp value to it (like say what Showgirls has) but it just takes itself too damn seriously.Dominique Swain is never once convincing that she has these poker "skills" (seeming more of an embarrassment to anyone that's ever studied the game) and often times, especially during one of her emotional rants, she comes off as grating more than anything else. I thought it was nice to see both Michael Madsen and Lou Gossett, Jr. here, though it's clear that they're cashing a check, they at least still have some credibility to their parts. Not so with the rest of the cast, especially our cartoonish doctors and the Saved By The Bell-lite medical students.But then still you have to contend with the poor pacing and the extremely clumsy way of shooting this, there's never any tension here, and never any excitement. this one's both an embarrassment as a poker movie and even as schlocky soap opera... 1/10 and that's being generous...

If "smell-o-vision" is ever actually invented, and you stumble upon this first-class disaster, the smell of failure (dog turds) WILL waft through your television. How in the hell the entire cast got through this fiasco of a production with a straight is beyond me. AND!...and!!...that the good folks at HBO include this in their programming, subjecting us to possibly the worst acting performances in cinematic history, is dumbfounding!! I mean, they had to have felt like less of a human being by actually ACCEPTING their paychecks when it was over. Honestly, by the end, I couldn't turn it off because I was in tears laughing hysterically (and deep down thinking, is this for real?? I mean I hit the "info" button on my remote to make sure it wasn't classified as a comedy!!) I realize Swain, Madsen, Gossett Jr., et al, aren't Oscar caliber actors, but that they lent their acting "talents" to this garbage is truly baffling. I'd normally tell potential viewers to stay the hell away, but it's almost worth your time to enjoy some good belly laughs at the expense of the entire cast and crew...just make sure to have a barf bag close at hand.

This movie is to say it quickly bad.the poker played in this is pretty unbelievable getting straights and flushes on the river, playing the shittiest cards in poker and hitting.the acting was also something really bad, alright they had a good actor (Michael Madsen) who was in it for maybe 15 mins tops the plot twist and turned every scene change, i am not sure if it wanted to be a movie about love, becoming a doctor or playing poker. although it did try to be all 3 and failed really badly and was really really predictable, especially the last poker hand played.if you plan to see this movie, just don't its a complete waste of time.

This was by far the worst film I have ever seen in my entire life. The plot was absolutely ridiculous. The idea of making money off of poker was somehow sprung upon the audience with very little coherent reasoning or explanation ("Oh you're sort of good at poker based on the one hand that you won when we were drinking and playing strip-poker, so let's pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debts with our combined pseudo-talents! YAY!"). Absolutely everything about this film was awful. The script, the acting, and the photography were nothing short of laughable. I wouldn't normally post a comment at all on a film so terrible, but, somehow, this film managed to be so particularly horrendous that it was thought provoking in itself.