Review of Lucky You (2007) by Becca W — 10 Jun 2008

Small town girl goes to Vegas to sing and find her fortune means boy who is the son of a gambling legend who is a good player himself...blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzz.

This review of Lucky You (2007) was written by Becca W on 10 Jun 2008.

Lucky You has generally received mixed reviews.

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The result is that most of the picture plays out as a series of scenes in which our hero sits there, gets angry and loses all his money…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire (3,446) on 06 Jan 2015

A 'realistic' Vegas movie that will set no-one's soul on fire, but is further proof that Hanson can lend his talents to any style of movie…

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I'm a big poker fan, which was the main draw for me on this one. But honestly, I was pretty disappointed…

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