The Cooler

[Gecko Brothers]

This is a great movie with one of those "oh so that is how music suppose to sound" soundtrack. It is about Bernie (William H. Macy 77 films and counting) is a loser with some serious bad vibes. He has so much bad luck that his friend Shelly (Mr. Alec "I'll leave the US if Bush gets elected in 2000 but my fingers are crossed" Baldwin) hired Bernie to spread his bad luck to other tables causing other people to loose. We see this with a great shot of Bernie limping around touching tables and shaking hands causing everyone around him to loose. He makes friends with a waitress named Natalie (Maria Bello soon to be in an Assult on Princinct 13 remake) They fall in love. She becomes his Lady Luck and guess what his luck spreads. Now Shelly isn't to happy with the results and wants Nat to split with Bernie but she won't now they need to leave Vegas. The  movie is good with A++ acting heck I'm giving it another puls just for fun, actualy how about an A+*+=- grade in the acting department. The directing is also great, but the true star is Mark Isham origional music it is great. It is refreshing not to hear rap songs or some type of hip hop or even rock. Great film, it's worth the buy.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Gecko,

I rented this flick when it was first released on video a couple of months ago, and was really surprised at how good it was.  I've always been a huge Macy fan and rented it just because he was in it.  

I was also surprised at how truly violent the flick was.  It was quite refreshing to see a gritty, violent, heartwarming romance film.  

Overall I'd probably give it a 8/10.

[Neville]

I love low bufget thrillers, but I let this one escape when it was on theatres because I'm not precisely an Alec Baldwin fan. From what you say, I'm renting it as soon as I see it on my rental store.

[mr. henry]

i thought the COOLER was a great flick too. i always recommend to people P. T. Anderson's first  feature film HARD EIGHT starring phillip baker hall, john c. reilly, gwyneth paltrow, and samuel jackson. it is a gambling flick in which things go awry. worth seeking out. got great reviews. one of my faves!!!!