
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.... (Full plot summary below)
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A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
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| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordThe tone is too satirically smug, off much in the same way as "I Love You Phillip Morris," with Spacey doing everything but tap dancing to garner attention to a character he never makes more than skin deep. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesSpacey transforms a villain into a mere scoundrel |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfSpacey never transforms into the role. The part is tailored to match Spacey's favorite pastime: Playing Kevin Spacey. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff Meyers...Hickenlooper never opens up both barrels on Abramoff, leaving all character insight to the movie's star, Kevin Spacey. Bad idea. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordIf you want to get the real skinny on Casino Jack and his amazing story, see the Alex Gibney documentary. If you just want to be entertained for a couple of hours, rent the movie. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekDespite some sharp moments, just too messy and uneven to hit the target consistently. |
| DeadspinWill LeitchHickenlooper was a talented director with a clear, passionate love of movies. It's a shame his last one had to be this one. |
| TheLoop21.comKam WilliamsA revisionist history bio-pic, reminiscent of Charlie Wilson's War, which recasts an arrogant influence-peddler behaving like he's above the law as merely a bad-boy bon vivant with the best of intentions. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA fast-paced and spunky depiction of the power-plays, greed, corruption, and grandiosity of GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a larger-than-life wheeler-dealer. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThough Casino Jack never lets its protagonist off the hook for his misdeeds, it does underline the hypocrisy of those politicians who were content to take his money but then ran for cover in February 2004 when the Washington Post began to expose his fleecing of six different Indian tribes. |