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The Card Player (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 3  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 4.5/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

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 email is a challenge to play a game of poker over the internet...and if Det. Mari loses, an innocent... 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]

Genre: Dramas

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

Director: Dario Argento

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 8, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Alan Jones - Author Of Profundo Argento
  • Production Interview - 1. Dario Argento - Director
  • Featurette - Behind The Scenes Featurette
  • Trailer

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3/10

Plutôt embarrassant.

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11/25/05
Jean-François Vandeuren
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2.5/4

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

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10/16/05
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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5/10

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
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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
Movie Gazette
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1.5/5

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
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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1.5/5

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
New York Times
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2.5/4

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
New York Post
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2/5

An okay story, a tepid and convoluted plot, no logic and silly dialogue.

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07/27/04
Jeremy Knox
Film Threat
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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
Slant Magazine
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