Tobias Bell

For a minute, The Card Counter promised a deep dive into the evil that men do and the possibility, or not, of redemption; There are some interesting, horrifying, bits at the beginning about American military (enhanced) interrogation, and Isaac is presented as penitent anti - hero, but the milieu established, the movie swiftly devolves into a dog's breakfast of clichés, limp dialogue, and wooden acting. None of the relationships are believable, and scenes intended to be climatic, achieve only bathos. And no amount of spacey music can save it. More of a "film product" than a movie. I give it one star simply for existing.