I had a hard time buying the whole premise, even in "The Golden Shangri-La" casino, which is the last hold-out of the more modern, glitzy casinos that rule the Las Vegas strip, where the fiscal health of the casino is almost solely dependent on the title character, Bernie, who's just bad luck on legs. Sure, as a tall tale, I could buy it in short quantities, but for as long as Bernie has been employed as "The Cooler", it just takes too many liberties to create conflict and drama out of thin air.
The romance between Bernie and a cocktail waitress isn't as convincing as it could have been. The caricature that Alec Baldwin conjures up as Shelly, the #1 guy at the casino, is good for laughs and for pushing the conflict forward, but it's a fun performance by Baldwin.
I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.
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