Advantages: Very Different Disadvantages: Noises & Music are louder than Speech
Like most of his work The Card Player is a cutting edge idea from the king of Cutting Edge Dario Argento. After his stop off in Hollywood Argento has made fewer movies than he did during the 70's & 80's but the ideas seem to be worth the wait.
Onto the movie an Italian Police woman who is investigating the dissapearance of a British Tourist receives an E-mail from thew kidnapper. He informs her that she must play him at online poker, for each hand ... ...her not to play and the girl is murdered in a chat room for all to see. In steps John Brennan (Liam Cunningham from Cracker & Prime Suspect) who is an Irish Cop on placement in Italy with the UK police. Brennan has a troubled past and a history of alcoholism. Together with Anna they try to track down the killer before he claims more victims. The movie stabs at trying to take you down false turns making you think you may know the killer, however these ...
sghawken 01.11.2005
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A demented serial killer is kidnapping young women and tying them to a chair in front of a ... more
webcam. He challenges the police to games of Internet Poker - if the police win, the girls go free ... lose, the police are forced to watch him torture them live...
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: K.C. Bascombe - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jesse James, Rachel Skarsten, Charles Powell, Linda Purl, Kevin Zegars
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