In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Writer & director Michael Winnick's "Guns, Girls, and Gambling" is truly a guilty pleasure. This lightweight, breezy, shoot'em up, road trip epic about a group of Elvis impersonators and the search for an ancient Hopi Indian mask is a lot of fun. A diverse cast, funny performances, interesting characters, scenic settings, amusing dialogue, a little nudity, and good cinematography make this opus worth watching. Basically, "Guns, Girls, and Gambling" is a derivative but entertaining beer and pizza picture that never wears out its welcome. The Elvis impersonators reminded me of the Kurt Russell & Kevin Costner shoot'em up "10,000 Miles to Graceland" and the quirky humor sounded like something out of a Cohen brothers movie. I imagine that in screenplay form that this would have a real page turner. Calling "Guns, Girls, and Gambling" a Tarantino movie because of a trunk shot and Christian Slater's presence is pretty facile. Altogether, I genuinely enjoyed this high body count contemporary western. The blonde chick in the black body suit with two automatic pistols was incredibly sexy.

This is the kind of cinematic experience where everything you need to know (not to mention everything you don't) is forcibly spoon fed to you exactly a million times over. What you see here is precisely what you get, and that list is as follows: Christian Slater as Christian Slater, endless clichés and plot holes, recycled characters and storytelling devices, shamefully shameless editing, racism, sexism, gratuitous violence, oh, and did I mention Gary Oldman as an Elvis Impersonator? This film is pretty much the bastard child of 3,000 Miles to Graceland and Smokin' Aces. Two films that were not all that original to begin with...but I love them anyway. And same goes (if only to a slightly lesser extent) for Guns, Girls and Gambling. So basically, I'm saying it works...just not very hard.

"Give me the mask!" Six Elvis impersonators are sitting around playing poker, in the morning one of them (Slater) wakes up alone at the table and is quickly accused of stealing a Native American mask. Trying to convince everyone that he is innocent he tries to find the real thief. One by one people wind up dead and time is running out for him. I have said for a while that just because a movie has an all star cast doesn't mean that it's automatically good. This is an exception. I'm not saying that this is an amazing movie because it's not but this is just plain and simple a fun movie to watch. This is one of the better straight to video movies that I have seen in a while. The writing is very witty and funny. Running gags and repetitive one-liners make the movie funny and fast moving. This is the type of movie you can just put in and watch without having to think about. I like those sometimes. Overall, a very entertaining movie with witty writing. I give it a B+.

GGG is a nice little movie that keeps you entertained throughout. Michael Winnick manages to keep the cadence really steady, so if you like the first ten minutes you'll probably like the whole thing. This is actually a great accomplishment as too many movies starting with a similar vibe get goofy and boring after a while.Plot- and character-wise Winnick uses many stereotypes, the ingredients of GGG are very familiar. But the overall result looks fresh and new, so there's nothing wrong with that.The hypocritical prejudices against the use of stereotypes are a main source of GGG's humor. If you can't laugh about people with prejudices complaining about the different prejudices of others, you should skip this movie.The two movies GGG really reminds me of are "Lucky Number Slevin" and "Snatch". Both have a rating of 8. That sounds a bit high for "a nice little movie", but GGG's current rating is 3.7 and that's just embarrassing. So 8 it is.