Lights, Camera, Mesquite!

Call me Captain Video today. After 21, with Kevin Spacey doing his rent-a-Satan act, anyone would be understandably leery of movies about card-counting … especially ones directed by someone named Delaney Dragon. (Would he be any relation to The Eiger Sanction‘s spymaster Urassis Dragon?) However, Rough Hustle has a few things in its favor … although its generic straight-to-video title would not be among them. But the unglamorous, no-name cast supplies a veneer of neo-realism, as does the use of off-Strip and Mesquite locations. There’s no shortage of grunge in and around Las Vegas and, judging by the trailer, Rough Hustle practically wallows in it.