By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O`Dowd, Brian d`Arcy James, Bill Camp, Michael Kostroff and Graham Greene.
Rating: Excellent.
Academy Award Winner Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut with “Molly´s Game”. Not only he wrote a brilliant screenplay but made an outstanding directorial debut.
Based on a true story, the movie centers in Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) a former Olympic- class skier who later in her life runs the world´s most exclusive high-stakes poker games in Los Angeles and New York City.
Eventually she will become a target of the FBI and The Russian Mob, which will lead her to face federal charges.
She will seek the help of a Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba) a New York Attorney who takes her case and help her clear her name.
I define “Molly´s Game” as a movie that will engage you from beginning to end; this is pretty much thanks to the screenplay that Aaron Sorkin wrote based on the book of the real Molly Bloom who the movie is about.
Sorkin´s directing gets into a lot of detail and I love the fact that he explains you every single terms of the plays in Poker, specially if you are not related to the game at all.
The use of voiceover works at this film and it uses it only for the most important moments. The problem when you use a tool like voiceover is the fact that most of the times is not used properly and here it was not the case.
Sorkin directed a brilliant cast and Jessica Chastain gives a remarkable performance. She plays her character with so much realism that you feel identified with her from beginning to end.
Of the movies that Aaron Sorkin has written, this I consider it the less theatrical of the richest in terms of dialogue. He crafted a marvelous screenplay with very good dialogue.
I consider Aaron Sorkin one of the best writers that this industry has and nobody can write dialogue like he does. His work in “Molly´s Game” is a huge example of it.
Despite the length of the film, which is two hours and twenty minutes, the movie isn´t boring and engages you from the opening scene to the closing of it.
Hopefully “Molly´s Game” is a movie that will be considered in the next Oscar´s race specially for screenplay and performances which were phenomenal.
Kevin Costner delivers one of the best performances I have seen in a long time. He performance as Larry Bloom is so convincing and the scene that practically defines the film is when he has a conversation with his daughter.
The ending was completely unexpected of this film and I was very pleased from beginning to end with it.
Aaron Sorki´s debut couldn´t had a better start and "Molly´s Game" is one of the best film of 2017, which I highly recommend. I guarantee you that you will enjoy this movie as much as I did.