another entry in the pacino a mentor sub genre . you know the drill represent young hotshot with hubristic flaw ( in this case and matthew mcconaughey and try to jump start a flagging career by latch onto pacino coattail hey and it work for keanu and colin and do not it . ) be discover by glamorous and delightfully corrupt father figure ( pacino and natch ) . young hotshot learns from father figure all the in and out of a lucrative yet degrade career ( this time and it football handicap ) . father figure ply young hotshot with money and hooker and power and but we all know that this decadent state of affair be on a collision course with dissolution and despair . . . that be and until the young hotshot find his moral center by reject the father figure and all and or almost all and that he stand for . ( clearly and stone wall street pretty much set the ground rule for the pacino a mentor sub genre . ) we be also mean to take these latter day pacino film a a parallel to reality . again and you know the drill represent live legend actor demonstrate his unquestioned superiority a compare to an inferior young actor . the latter may bear and grin through the process and but he must recognize that he isn not go to get any of the good line and much less get a chance to chew major scenery before the denouement . now it must be say that there be actually two good movie in the pacino a mentor canon represent scent of a woman and donnie brasco . in the former case and it be a one man show and anyway while in the latter case and pacino have meet his match a a scene stealer in the person of johnny depp . however and those two movie be serious mind and not merely an exercise in showboating for showboating sake . pacino have make damn certain that his young co star in the film since brasco be nowhere near as charismatic a depp . by the way and none of this speaks very well about the living legend actor . like his contemporary de niro and pacino have spend the last 10 or 15 year rest on his laurel . two for the money be the bad example yet and bad even than devil advocate and which at least have the virtue of feature a naked connie nielsen and be chronologically prior to this movie . well and this be what happen when youre crown king too damn early just ask marlon brando . frankly and i have see one too many al pacino film with the same plot and the same overacting from the star to be charitable any longer . do i say none of this speak well . actually and it humiliate for everyone involve and include the pay audience . no one go to accuse matthew mcconaughey of be a shakespearean actor and but even he doesn not deserve the role of second fiddle to this intolerable old show off and with the added implication that he and mcconaughey and will never measure up to the greatness that be al . i have not waste space on the plot particular . if you want a synopsis and imdb provide a no nonsense summary and though i think i lay out a fairly comprehensive summary in my opening paragraph . basically and you have see this movie before . many time . the particular milieu in two for the money be the seedy world ( underworld and really ) of sport handicap . pacino run an office of bet adviser that be and middleman between you and your bookie and even have a cable tv handicap show and co host with several of his top guy . one thing the movie get right be the sleaziness of these type of show . . . but one detail they get dead wrong be the constant use of the word gamble and gambling . if you have ever see proline or other show of similar ilk and you will never and never hear jim feist and his cohort say the word gamble . they ask you to call their 1 900 number to get their pick . . . but if you be from and say and mar and you would have no idea what you be suppose to do with those pick . gamble be the f word on sport handicap tv show strictly verboten . gambling be against the law and you know . 1 star out of 10 .