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The Card Player (2004)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:3

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.5/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Oct 6, 2004 Limited

Synopsis: From master horror director Dario Argento comes THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO). Stefania Rocca plays Anna Mari, a police detective whose birthday is ruined by a bizarre email she receives. In the... From master horror director Dario Argento comes THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO). Stefania Rocca plays Anna Mari, a police detective whose birthday is ruined by a bizarre email she receives. In the email is a challenge to play a game of poker over the internet...and if Det. Mari loses, an innocent woman will be murdered right there on screen. A demented serial killer begins to challenge the police with this game again and again, and Mari launches into an intense investigation to find the maniac. But meanwhile, the police must enlist the help of a teenage boy, who is also a poker genius, to hold off the killer. How long can THE CARD PLAYER be kept at bay before the police lose again and another woman is murdered? [More]

Starring: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Fiore Argento, Claudio Santamaria

Starring: Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Fiore Argento, Claudio Santamaria, Antonio Cantafora

Director: Dario Argento

Director: Dario Argento

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12/06/05
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Plutôt embarrassant.

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11/25/05
Jean-François Vandeuren
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama

What most disappoints, then, is the film's aggressive ordinariness.

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10/16/05
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Argento can't adapt thrills of digital entertainment to the thrills of cinema.

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10/06/05
Dragan Antulov
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03/12/05
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

Argento, the once great king of giallo, goes down the drain - which is the only royal flush to be seen in this sub-par gambling thriller.

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01/24/05
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

This oddly flat serial-killer picture shows none of the baroque flair that characterizes the best of Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento's work.

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10/08/04
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Though it's based on a promisingly outrageous premise ... the film unfolds as a tired, thoroughly conventional police procedural that might as well be titled CSI: Roma.

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10/06/04
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
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Fans of the cult helmer who expect the usual gore will be disappointed -- but there are compensations.

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10/06/04
V.A. Musetto
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New York Post
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An okay story, a tepid and convoluted plot, no logic and silly dialogue.

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07/27/04
Jeremy Knox
Jeremy Knox
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Watching the online cards turn slowly (sometimes painfully so) in the film is to be reminded of how good Argento used to be when his aesthetic approach was less synthetic.

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07/19/04
Ed Gonzalez
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