Shooting Gallery (Video 2005)

Shooting Gallery: Directed by Keoni Waxman. With Ving Rhames, Roselyn Sanchez, Daniel Newman, Freddie Prinze Jr.. A street-smart pool player falls in with a pack of hustlers. As he rises in the underground circuit, he lands in the middle of a match between his boss and a crooked cop.

“My chief complaint is that there are no captions, so Iu0026#39;m only catching bits and pieces of the movie. The names are already killing me. Jezebel… Jericho… Is this pool or u0026#39;Children of the Cornu0026#39;?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting as a whole was atrocious. Was there even a director on the set? The accents and dialogue are hilarious. All I hear is u0026quot;sisal, sisal, sisalu0026quot;. I have never in my life heard anyone talk like this in any pool hall Iu0026#39;ve ever been in. The special features said the slang was 30% made up by the movie makers – try 90% and the rest they got wrong. Like what is all this u0026quot;tribeu0026quot; talk? Nice tattoos, by the way. So they get branded. With eight-balls, no less. Way to hustle there, sports. I expect to hear Ving Rhames offer to get the horses for his u0026quot;mastuhu0026quot; any minute now. Oh, Freddie… if youu0026#39;re lyin, youu0026#39;re dyin? Thatu0026#39;s tough. Especially with you lowering your voice like that. Itu0026#39;s reminiscent of Rocky Balboa.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen not only did they make up their own jargon, they butchered actual pool terminology. Itu0026#39;s a good thing this movie never made it to theatres, or weu0026#39;d have a bunch of clowns running around our pool halls rambling about dandelions and lemons.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf course, the shots, the bridges, and the u0026quot;sharkingu0026quot; these guys are doing are all horrible, but I expected no less. The rack twirl got me, though. You know what Iu0026#39;m talking about… That thing ball-bangers do. I also noticed when u0026quot;Jerichou0026quot; and u0026quot;Cueball Carlu0026quot; (*rolls eyes*) are playing, they rack the balls in numerical order. Nice. And love the glove, Carl.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eShooting Gallery was also an apt title. I think they shot more with guns than cues. I actually felt like I was watching a soft porn through some of those scenes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot all is lost, though. I walked away with a new playing strategy: When on the nine, hit it as hard as you can. And cuss. A lot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie does what I never thought possible, which is suck more than u0026#39;Poolhall Junkiesu0026#39;.”