Review of Mississippi Grind (2015) by Stephen R — 04 Mar 2016

This one is pretty awesome...one of those down to earth real feeling films thats still engaging and worth watching...a throwback to some great 70s buddy movies (Hackman and Hoffman in Scarecrow) about two loser types but it never goes too fair...dynamic male female directors bring some serious intelligent artful filmmaking with a strong supporting cast to frame these two terrific top notch performances by a possibly unlikely duo of now huge again movie star Ryan Reynolds and phenomenal chameleon like Aussie character actor Ben Mendelshon (who has been in a zillion movies and is regarded by many as one of the best actors around) and has been carving a niche bringing pathos believable without excessive sentiment to broken loser types...and a few years ago I had thought of Ryan Reynolds as just a wanna be Ben Affleck (not thinking that wanting to be Ben Affleck is a good thing) but he has proven that quite wrong...i did not have chance to see Deadpool yet but I know its good and the fact that he would make this around the same time makes me respect him...in fact, it was in Empire magazine I even heard about this movie and I am glad they guided me to check out this intelligent oddly entertaining buddy gambler movie...also, I am not one to much love gambling movies, over then passing in the background, and these guys do it well.

Their previous outings in Sugar and Half Nelson were also terrific...bravo...