Rotten
First-time feature director Matthew Warchus can't keep the plot from bewildering and even distancing the viewer.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Overview
As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed?
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Rotten
Stone doesn't show up until the film is half over and seems to be trying rather hard to make up for the lost time.
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Warchus seems as at ease with the complexity of the style as he is with directing actors.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Rotten
Simpatico pulls up lame way before the stretch.
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
Rotten
Much effort and expertise have gone into the making of Simpatico, but, while it's entertaining, it's not as persuasive as it needs to be to succeed fully.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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