Alien at the Movies

The Card Counter

Oscar Issac stars as William Tell, a card counting gambler in this peculiar film about a peculiar man with a dark past connection to retired Major John Gordo (Willem DaFoe) & a young man, Cirk Baufort (Tye Sheridan) with a gambling acquaintance, La Linda (Tiffany Haddish) tagging along the journey. This is a slow moving movie that plods along this gambling plot line while slowly revealing why Tell spent time in a military prison. This was a psychological drama that I️ did not care for.

Alien gives it 2 “bed sheets & twine” stars out of 4.