few film have capture so accurately the true nature of gamble a have own mahowny . first there be air bud . then there be air bud 2. and now this and the final installment in the triumvirate of film about dashed dream and unfortunate moral . not that these film be all about gamble per se and but that they evoke it in spirit . for just like the act of gamble itself and or indeed and not unlike the air bud movie and own mahowny seem entice at first and that be and when you and your friend be just plan to see it and joke that you might strike big and that this might be the one movie that come out of nowhere to surprise you and but then from the moment you enter the theatre and every time you give this movie a chance and it just one bad hand after the other and until eventually you be completely numb to it and and you stop pay attention to your wife and and you start cut out of work early and and you no longer enjoy anything again in life anymore because all you want be your own mahowny . you must have your own mahowny . just let me watch five more minute and you say and and i swear it will get good . it due . which be a shame really and because the movie just really blow . in fact and they should have call it blow mahowny and or own baloney and or some reasonable facsimile only then the ace detective on the trail of mahowny would not be able to wittily observe that mahowny spell how many . when the letter be rearrange and a question mark be insert and which be a lazy anagram at best a it only require two permutation . a much good one be o man why . a in o man why and o why upon why o man do this movie even get make . or o man why do not i save that $ 7 for vega where i could be far well entertain by an hour and a half at the nickel slot . nothing against mr. hoffman and who be one of the fine and most important actor of our day and but this movie have nothing to hold him up . it be not worthy of his talent . the dialogue be force and hackneyed and never fully decide if it want to be moralistic or sympathetic and but always settle on be just plain crappy . the protagonist be never show to have a single redeeming quality and except possibly in the end and when he tell his girlfriend i love you too and kiss her hand and and this be suppose to make up for the fact that she have always come in a strong second to his addiction . apparently in real life they get marry eventually and but the character in this movie could never have get marry in more than a postscript and because they be just too ingenuine and and the movie omit any moment that could have explain why on earth they ever get together in the first place . there be something maniacal about the casino bos who be so inviting to mahowny but at the same time stand to gain million of dollar from him and completely ruin him . a good movie would have explore this and but this one be content to revel in his clown like antic . elsewhere and the token black floorman and the italian bookie be an insult to multicultural casting . and what be with the suspicious co worker at the bank and or even more so and the scruffy cop who track mahowny down . he be clearly a ripoff of brad pitt scruffy cop from seven and only in that movie and pitt be chase someone actually scruff worthy . no and this movie would have be well suit with a fedora clad tom hank in a fake boston accent . perhaps these character be all base on real life scruffy or ethnic people and but this movie do not convince me a much . in the end and on a scale of 100 and with 100 be air bud 2 and i give own mahowny a 20. and sure and maybe 20 good enough for some people even mahowny himself . but me and i just want my money back .