Las Vegas Weekly

I could not agree more. Being born and raised in Vegas, the film really bothered me....especially the whole lottery theme. I kept waiting for something in the film to remind me of this city, but it never came. It might as well have been "Saint John of Any American City That Actually Has a Lottery."

Although the performances were decent, I kept hoping for more, especially when there would be good moments and I would hold out on the hope that it would turn around and surprise me, but it didn't. It's sad when the best part of a film is its' cast bowing at the end.

This is a master piece, the characters in this movie are very interesting and amusing. Like a good golf course, you remember certain holes, no one will forget many of the scenes and the performances in this movie, Steve Buscemi's "Lap Dance", his appreciation for snack cakes and Sarah Silverman. She will make you smile and laugh every time she comes on the camera. This will be a huge hit, worth taking a road trip with them. Doesn't everyone dunk their twinkies in redbull?

Let's admit it. The movie that stands as the archetype for all other Las Vegas movies is: 3000 Miles to Graceland

Hmm. The movie starts in Albuquerque, NM. New Mexico has a State Lottery and scratch-off games. Buscemi's character is such a pitiful loser, he is gambling his gas money on his way to his dead-end insurance adjuster job, in Albuquerque - on scratch-off tickets! Buscemi later embarks on a roadtrip to Las Vegas, NV - a town he has fled in his past because of his gambling addiction. Thus he descends into the depths of hell - his own private hell, one ring/scene towards Vegas at a time.