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Apr 8, 2017 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune The premise might sound interesting, but the plotting is so utterly predictable that The Color of Money turns into a pool-room variation of The ...
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If this movie had been directed by someone else, I might have thought differently about it because I might not have expected so much. But "The Color of Money" is directed by Martin Scorsese, the most exciting American director now working, and it is not an exciting film. It doesn't have the electricity, the wound-up tension, of his best work, and as a result I was too aware of the story ...
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Fast Eddie' Felson, a former pool hustler, takes the immensely talented but green Vincent Lauria under his wing as a protege, but after the two fall out, Eddie takes up playing again, and is forced to face off against his former apprentice.
The Color Of Money The Color Of Money is a character driven dramatic feature about the teacher-student relationship retold in a mean street version. Reintroducing an iconic character like such, is obviously burdened with tremendous amount of pressure since the expectations are on the roof and fortunately it lives up to its hype.
Academy Award(R)-winner Paul Newman and Academy Award(R)-nominee Tom Cruise ignite the screen in this powerful drama. Brilliantly directed by Martin Scorsese, Newman re-creates one of his most memorable roles from The Hustler. As Fast Eddie Felson, he still believes that "money won is twice as sweet as money earned."
In six tries over the space of 23 years, the Best Actor Oscar consistently evaded Paul Newman's deserving grasp. When he finally obtained the accolade on his seventh try, it seemed fitting that it should come for The Color of Money (1986), his sunset-years reprise of the role that landed him his second nomination twenty-five years earlier, that of pool shark "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler ...
