'Playing for Keeps' Has No Game
The only wide release movie this week is so bad there is a good chance it's on the way to home video by Christmas.
Gerard Butler plays a divorced ex-jock who needs to be a father to his kid in the terrible romantic comedy "Playing for Keeps." The film is playing in East Cobb at the GTC Merchants Walk 12 Cinema and GTC Park Cobb 12. Jessica Biel plays his ex-wife who just happens to be getting remarried. Uma Thurman and Cahterine Zeta-Jones play a couple of horny housewives who can't resist Butler. Dennis Quaid has a small role as a creepy team soccer dad who loves throwing money around. This may be one of the worst romantic comedies I have ever seen. Butler is a decent actor but this is not his finest hour. He stumbles though the movie as a good-looking, bumbling fool. The notion that no woman in town, even those who have suffered most from his …
Robyn M. Ryan
9:02 am on Sunday, December 9, 2012
Seriously? This was a fun movie... Definitely a chick flick, though the husbands and boyfriends in the audience seemed to enjoy it as much as the girls. Perfect diversion during the Christmas rush. On iTunes by Christmas? Great, on my Christmas list! more ›