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Owning Mahowny   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: B 11 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B 261 ratings  User Reviews (22 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 22  |   Next   Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A Direction: A Visuals: A- sUre bEt by Lou (movies profile) (Nov 16, 2004) 3 of 4 people found this review helpful "Owning Mahowny" is a film that makes you want to jump through the screen, grab it's lead character by the shoulders and shake sense into him. There has never been a film... Full Review Overall Grade: B- Story: C+ Acting: B+ Direction: B Visuals: B- Good, but .... by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Nov 16, 2004) 2 of 2 people found this review helpful I love the movie genre that centres around gambling and con-artists and explores the weaknesses in human nature that drive people to risk everything. This movie manages t... Full Review Overall Grade: D+ Story: D+ Acting: B Direction: D Visuals: C- COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT by steve (movies profile) (Aug 20, 2006) 2 of 3 people found this review helpful Instead this movie fails because it takes a truly facinating true life subject and shows no emotion and no tie in to what gamblers feel. And yes I get it, that was a choi... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: A+ Direction: A Visuals: A Excellent Movie by dylan (movies profile) (Nov 13, 2003) 2 of 3 people found this review helpful Just saw this movie on DVD. Excellent movie. Great gambling movie. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was tremendous in this movie. An Oscar worthy job by Hoffman. This movie didn't... Full Review Overall Grade: D Story: D- Acting: B+ Direction: D Visuals: D+ So boring, it's agonizing to watch by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Apr 7, 2004) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful The Good: Philip Seymour Hoffman did an excellent job of acting as a nervous banker, completely addicted to gambling. He's convincing and really becomes the character. Un... Full Review Overall Grade: D Story: C- Acting: D Direction: D Visuals: C- grates on nerves by Movieman (movies profile) (Jan 5, 2004) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful This is one of those movies that makes you makes you want to smash all the characters in the head. The direction and plot, such as it is, is long, tedious and unnecessari... Full Review Overall Grade: D Story: D+ Acting: F Direction: C- Visuals: D+ boring by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Mar 13, 2004) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful This is really overated movie that is slow, boring and has no real "good" leading actor/actress. I think the actors need to take a new day job..k?   Overall Grade: C- Story: C- Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A This is based on a true story? by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile) (Oct 19, 2005) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful If so, it must be pretty simple to steal money from the bank. All one has to do is work in the bank for some time, establish trust, then make up phony accounts and sign... Full Review Overall Grade: C+ Story: C Acting: B+ Direction: B Visuals: C- Mahoney not good enough for me to own by Michael Y (movies profile) (Nov 16, 2004) 2 of 4 people found this review helpful A great story with a great cast provided the potential for "Owning Mahoney" to be a great film. Unfortunately, although the performances were very good, the story was pu... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A Superb Acting by Alan (movies profile) (Nov 26, 2003) 1 of 2 people found this review helpful Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John Hurt are very good in this story of a Canadian banker with a gambling addiction. Hoffman's character is wonderfully understated making th... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 22  |   Next