very cool

a fine flick, better to watch late at night. the soundtrack gets you in the mood i think. even so i wish it didnt have a happy ending..

Normally a movie with Alec Baldwin or William H. Macy would keep me glued to the screen the entire time, sadly this was not the case with The Cooler. It was slow paced, and quite frankly a little boring.

"That guy is kryptonite on a stick." 05/13/2009

a pretty standard vegas movie that's elevated by excellent performances from william h. macy and alec baldwin. i loved how each character was so flawed but you couldn't help but enjoy their company anyways. the only downside i found was that i really didn't like maria bello's character.

Not bad.

William H. Macy and Alec Baldwin both put in some really great performances, but the plot is not much more than the usual down and out in Vegas story.

Nothing that great. I had higher expectations for this flick. I had read that a lot of people thought Baldwin was good in this, but I didn't see it. I actually thought he overdid his role in some parts. My date liked it more then I did, and disagrees on my Alec Baldwin take.

Macy is great in this one.

Las Vegas fairy tale, from first-time director Kramer, full of hand-me-down ideas about the old-school gangster who still believes in busting kneecaps to keep order, the failed showgirl and the tail-for-sale, the poor-man's Sinatra and "the next Harry Connick, Jr.," the changing economic landscape: "There comes a time to decide whether you're running a museum or you're running a casino."