Does he really care about Brandon, or it is all part of a money game he is playing. Walter and Brandon has a business relationship that goes beyond it, Walter admires the young guy for his gift but at times his contradictory behaviour makes you question the true nature of Walter. Toni and Walter go back a long time and have seen each other’s life at worst. Two for the Money isn’t about the betting industry but the dynamics between its three central characters that happens to be in betting. McConaughey as Brandon is occasionally brilliant when his character makes a shift between a humble newcomer and a confident betting advisor who takes arrogant risks that change the environment around him. Dan Gilroy has written some great dialogues and the wisest ones are written for Walter.

‘Two for the Money’ has an intimidating performance by Al Pacino he owns every scene he is in. These wagers are mostly spent on offshore websites like the ones listed on BettingTop10 or through bookies and are due to the 1992 federal prohibition on sports betting. This only means that not even Hollywood is immune to the sports betting thrill and with more than $150 billion placed on illegal bets, the sports betting industry in the USA is bound to grow in the future. There is one more important character and that is Toni, Walter’s loving wife, who he uses on multiple occasions to play his little manipulative games. Walter is a sweet talker when he needs to be and thus he brings his guy to New York and turns him into a betting phenomenon, renaming Brandon as John Anthony, a name bettors blindly follow. Brandon, a bloke from Vegas, who used to be deep into sports and had to quit following a leg injury, has a gift, the gift of anticipating a game’s fate. You can watch the trailer here.Īl Pacino is Walter Abrams, a sports betting magnate, who somehow discovers Brandon and imports him to his territory in New York City. The film, however, stands nowhere close to the performances and couldn’t really turn into anything substantial. On the other hand, we had Matthew McConaughey who was still years away from his breakout performance, but shows signs of a great actor. He received critical appreciation for his previous two performances as playwright Tony Kushner in ‘Angels in America’ and as Shylock in Michael Radford’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and thus there was a returned confidence and ease in Pacino’s performance here. It’s a film which came around the time Al Pacino was seriously delivering comeback performances. ‘Two for the money’ is nearly that kind of a case. All of that's been done in secret, and we don't know all of the details about that yet.Great actors, in most cases, make sure that you have a fairly good time just watching them, even when they are in a mediocre film. We would learn what the charges are, but we would not learn all of the government's evidence.Īnd I think Jessica has made an excellent point. Regardless, I think, at that point, the indictment would be unsealed. But, obviously, there have been reports that the former president wants that to be in person. I think one thing we don't know is whether that would be virtual or in person. So I would expect that Trump's attorneys and the prosecutors would be in contact, and there would be - when that date is set, that there would be an understanding that he would appear at that initial appearance. That's essentially a hearing where the charges are traditionally formally read, not so much nowadays, but formally read, and the defendant is advised of his rights and the potential penalties.Īnd then there would also be a bond that would be set at that initial appearance and at that arraignment. So what we would expect is that there would be a date that would be set for an initial appearance and an arraignment.