Watch: Shade 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Shade is set in the world of poker hustlers working the clubs and martini bars of Los Angeles. The tale unfolds as a group of hustlers encounter “The Dean” and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster..
Plot: Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean “The Dean” Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster — which turns out to be a bad idea.
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I’ve known a lot of hustlers and mechanics in my time.. I have yet to meet a retired one.
***SPOILERS*** Overly over-plotted movie about a trio of of card hustlers trying to get a crack at #1 in the card sharp business the legendary Dean himself Dean Stevens, Sylvester Stallone,by being able to get the mechanic of the group Vernon, Stuart Townsend, to get into a private card game with him.the Dean is considered to be so big and unapproachable in the film that we don’t get a chance to see him until the movie is almost half over. In fact were not even sure if he exists or not up until then even though his name and exploits are brought up by everyone in the movie until he finally makes his grand appearance. It’s a lot like a previous movie that one of the stars in the film Gabriel Byrnes, as street hustler Charlie Miller, was in “The Usual Suspects” in regards to the never seen on screen, until he decided to be seen, Kiser Soza.
Finally when getting invited to play the Dean at a private room at the L.A Roosevet Hotel the three hustlers Vernon Miller and his on and off girlfriend Tiffany, Thandie Newton, realize that one of the invited guests is Mob Boss Max Maline, Partick Bauchan! The very person who’s got a hit out on them for hustling him out of $82,000.00 through one of their greedy and not so bright marks Larry Foxx, Jamie Foxx, at a fake private card game they set Larry up in.
***SPOILERS*** Hot and heavy action at the card table with as much as $2,000,000.00 at stake as Vernon goes head to head with the Dean after all the other players were wiped out in the non-stop card turning twisting and sliding action on the poker table. The Dean in fact had the upper hand on Vernon by being able to see, with his eyes unfocused, his hand due to juiced deck he slipped into the game. Yet for some reason the card that he had covered changed for Vernon from a Seven to a Jack without any explanation in the movie’s script! What’s even more ridicules is how the Dean was able to pull off the big switch when he could have easily been beaten since he didn’t have the highest card in the deck! But still just high enough to beat Vernon’s hand! The Dean’s success was not because of any kind of luck or card playing skill on his part but that he was in fact a much better cheater in cards then Vernon was!
***MAJOR SPOILER*** You finally get to see what happened in the movie, at the big card game, when it was just about over and when your about to turn your DVD or VCR player off. But by then your left so confused in all the twists and turns as well as back stabbings in this very confusing film that you’ve lost, in trying to follow the movie’s plot, all interest in it!
A movie that pulls you in and doesn’t let go…..
Expectations were low to start(no real theatrical release)but it grabbed me from the opening credits and didn’t let go ’til the last credits rolled off the screen..Tight,full of twists with great casting,and really good energy this movie was a hellova lotta fun to experience. We watch a lot of DVDs off Netflix (5 a week) but this was the best experience on a 45inch home screen I’ve had from a movie with no marketing and no advance hype since Interstate 60. How sad if true that it only made $50,000 in theatrical release. (previous review)… I’d give it 9 out of 10…And Stallone’s performance was the cherry on top.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 6800000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Thriller
Director Damian Nieman
Writer Damian Nieman
Actors Joe Nicolo, Carl Mazzocone Sr., George Tovar
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Clairmont Cameras
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)