Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Sameeha Pugh It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

witz-2 I was surprised to see a movie with Lee Marvin and Paul Newman on the shelf. I'd never heard of it. Cool, let's try it.What a waste of time. The only 2 movies with stars in it that i imagine would be worse are "Pluto Nash"and "Leonard Part 6". Heck, the supporting cast included Gregory Sierra, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo and Strother Martin. I like Rogers, but I didn't buy into his performance for even one second. The cast was not enough to save this Turkey in any manner.The dialog was horrible. The story just never seemed to develop,nor finish. There were 3 scenes with women. Only the scene with the ex wife did anything to advance the story, and that scene was lame.Cinematography? Mostly too washed out. There was one scene in the moonlight that was hilarious. We see him in what appears to be moonlit moment. Cut away, then right back to him and the lighting looks like midday.Carole King did the opening song. I suppose her singing would have fit with what they "wanted" this movie to be. The rest of the score was interesting, but incongruent. Sometimes sounding like Mike Post, sometimes western, some times folk or Mexican.I gave this 2 stars. Thinking back, I'm not sure why i was so generous.

classicsoncall I never thought a movie with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in the leads could ever move this slow. Half the time they didn't seem to be employing the same page from the script in their scenes together, and it was well into the picture before I was able to figure out that Leonard (Marvin) was actually working with, and not against Jim Kane (Newman). Kane seemed to be conflicted over just about everything in his life, and Leonard used these exaggerated hand gestures every once in a while that seemed unconnected to any thought process he might have had at the time. Just very confusing.Then on top of that you have Strother Martin as their crooked employer and Wayne Rogers as something of a man in the middle to keep things well oiled between Kane and Garrett (Martin). What this all leads to is a massive 'failyuh to communicate', as a Martin character once stated to a Newman character in the much better "Cool Hand Luke".Sorry, but this one just didn't grab me the way I thought it would going in. Quite seriously, the only thing that really sparked my interest was Lee Marvin's musings about colored salt - that seemed to make a lot of sense to me for the reason he gave. When I heard it I wanted to say 'correcto' like the Mexican in the movie, but I never learned that one in Spanish class.

nsidd Pocket Money is a very good and subtle comedy about an ordinary person (Newman) trying hard not to be conned by shady businessmen (played by Strother Martin and Wayne Rogers). Those viewers who are looking for exciting thrills and heroic deeds from the lead characters in such films are missing the point - which seems to be the case with most of the earlier reviews of this film on IMDb.The storyline makes it clear from the start that Newman's character is a hard working modern cowboy trying to make ends meet despite not being blessed with the most sharpest of brains. As a study of such an everyman character, Newman's performance is (in my view) superb. Marvin's performance on the other hand is a little subdued and below par, but still there is a good chemistry between him and Newman in some scenes. The only disappointing aspect of this film is the ending, which seems to leave the story unnecessarily incomplete. However, overall, I would rate this a very good production of an off-beat story.

bkoganbing If anyone has read my review of Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr's The Sundowners I said that the film has really no plot, but relies successfully on the charm of the characters to carry it along. Pocket Money falls in the same category. It just follows the driftings of its two leads to carry the film along. It works to a degree, but unlike the other film, the supporting characters aren't as interesting.Still Paul Newman who seems to personify a definition of insanity in that he keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results and his hustling pal Lee Marvin amble along in this film with such a degree of charm you can't help but like them. But you watch Pocket Money and you know these two guys will never hit the big time. Still they seem to try. My favorite part of the film is Marvin convincing Paul Newman to ride a bucking horse to gain some respect from prospective Mexican customers. It almost, but not quite descends into the kind of con games that Crosby used to employ on Hope.It would have been nice for a couple of mega stars like Newman and Marvin to have gotten a better film to do though.