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Wild Card (2015)

Wild Card poster
Directed by
Simon West
Genre
drama film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 1,958 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A gambler and bodyguard with a violent past agrees to help a friend who was assaulted. He takes on a dangerous mobster in Las Vegas, leading to a chain of revenge and conflict.

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What happens

Wild Card is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Milo Ventimiglia, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara. Based on the 1985 novel Heat by William Goldman, it is a remake of the 1986 adaptation that starred Burt Reynolds. The film was released in the United States on January 30, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand. Wild Card received negative reviews and was a box-office bomb, making only $6.7 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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