4K UHD Review – The Card Player

As legendary a filmmaker as Dario Argento is, he’s had his share of duds, especially after his creative heyday in the 1970s and ’80s. 2004’s “The Card Player” is far from his best work, finding Argento going into thriller mode with material that’s seldom suspenseful, out to make a detective story highlighting a perverse killer element while failing to inject the endeavor with style and urgency. The central point of pressure involving life or death games of video poker manages to hold attention, but the rest of “The Card Player” is quite dull, missing Argento’s enthusiasm for the macabre. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com