Uncut Gems
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dodankori When Adam Sandler is giving good direction and material to work with, he can be a surprisingly good actor, and this being a Safdie brothers film, NOT an Adam Sandler movie produced through Happy Madison productions, it clearly shows in how well crafted Howard Ratner's shady and manic persona. Howard, the main character played by Sandler is a jeweler working in New York's Diamond district who is also a gambling addict and on the verge of divorcing his wife Dinah (Idina Menzel) who is fed up with both his infidelity and his gambling addiction.
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dodankori Over the course of the film both before and after receiving the Ethiopian Opal which sets the films events into motion, Howard comes into a number of unsavory and criminal elements who are also increasingly fed up with Howard's constant need to pay back debts with money he's either pawned or owes to other people to begin with thus keeping him in a constant cycle of debt although he doesn't seem to upset by this and instead seems to accept it as a part of a fast paced lifestyle not willing to think too hard over the dire consequences it's having on his life until it's too late.
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dodankori At the end it seemed like it was finally going to pay off finally after so much bad luck and misfortune with Howard finally getting his happy ending with Julia and then he gets shot and killed by one of the crooks, who from the start seemed to have an exceptionally short fuse combined with a great dislike of Howard, thus eliminating the possibility of a true happy ending, but what was it all for in the end? He goes through all of that and doesn't come out of it alive, and the audience never even gets to find out what happens after his family and friends learn about his death. It felt really cheap and ruined much of the film for me.
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dodankori I suppose you could make the argument that he never learned from his mistakes and that even if he had lived to reap the spoils of his biggest gamble he would still end up screwing it up. going back into debt and ruining his relationship with Julia much like he had with Dinah. Even if that was the intention I don't know why they played up the climax and other scenes with such tension and seemed to be hinting that it truly meant something in the end. I'm afraid it doesn't cut it for me, they could have written a better ending while still keeping the general idea of gambling and addiction of any sort perhaps, is bad.