No. 49 Lucky You (2007) 29 of 100
Poker films are always a tough sell for me – they either treat their audience like idiots and say ‘five is more than four’ or they get too complex and it’s difficult to follow the action. ‘Lucky You’ is a decent effort but it definitely falls more into the former category than the latter. Eric Bana (what happened to him?!) plays a Las Vegas poker pro. He’s seemingly not a very good one as the film opens with him hocking a camera (later revealed to be stolen from a friend) in a pawnshop along with his late mother’s wedding ring for a few hundred bucks. He takes the cash to a low stakes game and quickly runs it up to a few thousand bucks. He’s keen to raise the stake to enter the World Series of Poker main event which requires a $10k buy in. He gets the money and then loses it. He then wins a seat at a satellite tournament but it is taken off him when it’s revealed the ancient dealer made an arse of it. In between these antics he meets Drew Barrymore and sponges some cas...