Molly's Game (2017)

"Molly's Game" is the best biopic I've seen in a while. I guess it's a bit better than "American Made", and before that I don't really remember something I could compare it with. I don't know if it's just the story, but the way the movie's written = the script, definitely has its merit.

The movie's based on a book with the same name + a long subtitle: "The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World", which actually concisely describes what we have here. Molly Bloom misses a career in ski after an unfortunate accident stealing her the chance of entering the Olympic team and somehow lands a job as a secretary for somebody in the L.A. high society. The guy organizes poker nights with other guys in the even higher society of L.A., or better said delegates this task to Molly, who for start finds in this another income source from the received tips. And so, all this leads to a successful entrepreneurship example = she takes all on her own at some point, even makes it fully legal, the sums move up and everything seems to go well. Until it doesn't, but as usual I'd rather not give out more than the trailer does...

As any biopic, to get its catchy factor, the story is maybe slightly adjusted here and there, but in any case is one with plenty of movie potential. The construction of the script makes it obvious that it takes the side of the main character, so, to be a bit mean, off-topic you can still probably ask yourself if the portrayed young lady really had so much integrity as it's shown. But that doesn't matter that much. For my concern, the movie could be very well pure fiction - what I've watched was a life drama with thriller accents and a happy-end that I liked. Maybe I'm a bit subjective about the character (keeping some reserve on it :) there's a reason for characterizing her at some point in the movie as the perfect type of "woman to fall in love with"), but more than this the movie has something motivational in it from beginning till the end, which might be discreet (= more or less between the lines) but that's exactly what makes it more real.

Rating: 4 out of 5