An average movie

Honestly, I had a rather hard time to make up my mind about this movie. Indeed, both Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren gave some solid performances and you could feel that the whole thing had some potential but, eventually, I came to the conclusion that I didn't care much about this story. I mean, it was intriguing to make a movie about a brothel in Nevada but, to start with, even though the whole place looked pretty sordid, they tried to make us believe that it was not so bad for the girls working there. Furthermore even though the whole brothel thing was enough for one movie, they decided to add up a boxing angle which I didn't really care for and, to make things worse, they made Helen Mirren's character fall in love with the much younger Argentinian boxer. Basically, it wasn't a very good story and both Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci deserved better. It is not very often that the great Helen Mirren gets to play the lead and, for Pesci, the waste was maybe worse since it was the first movie he made in 12 years (if you don't count 'The Good Sheperd' which was merely a cameo). To conclude, even though this movie had some potential, it is eventually rather weak and not really worth a look.

5/10