Review of Poker

I have seen this movie yesterday with my wife a couple of our friends in a cinema in Bucharest and we all agreed this movie could easily be a candidate for the worst Romanian movie ever made. It was a huge disappointment, considering the director Sergiu Nicolaescu's previous cinematographic background, but again, he became famous for action and historical movies, not comedies… I guess he should have stayed with directing those… This movie is bad in so many ways that is hard for me to start criticizing it, but I believe the script is the main flaw and it should have never been turn into a movie in the first place. It is said to be a satirical comedy, a tragicomic view on post-communist Romania, portraying real Romanian typologies (the corrupt politician, the mob godfather, the "godlike" doctor, the "material girl") but the fact is that it fails to deliver, it is simply poorly made. It is a pity, because the actors are all significant for the Romanian show-biz and they struggle to make something out of those characters, but as an irony, their good acting only makes things worse. It was similar to casting Academy-Award winners in a Stanley and Oliver movie. My final advice to you is: Avoid this movie! It is a waste of precious time