terrible... so disappointed.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Lucky Numbers (2000): Dir: Nora Ephron / Cast: John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Bill Pullman, Ed O'Neill: Anything but lucky for those unfortunate enough to see it. Title refers to its two stars but since the ongoing events result in bad luck it comes off as a misdirection. John Travolta plays an adored weatherman who is joined by lottery girl Lisa Kudrow in rigging the lottery. She is romantically involved with both Travolta and her boss. Director Nora Ephron previously directed Travolta in Michael but here she is surrounded by endless stupidity. The production looks as festive as an outdoor toilet. Travolta looks plain desperate as he attempts to erase one mistake by creating five new ones. Kudrow plays dimwit dumb without payoff. When her asthmatic cousin fails to come through on part of the scheme she throttle the tar out of him, unintentionally killing him. In any event both leads are at their worst, and considering that Travolta starred in the dreadful Battlefield Earth the same year, it would take more than the lottery to bypass that shame. Tim Roth is best casting as a strip club owner who assists the star duo. Bill Pullman plays a brainless cop who concludes on the one funny scene. Ed O'Neill plays a sleazy station manager who sleeps with Kudrow on the side. Theme of greed is evident but this is ultimately Travolta's unlucky number. Score: 3 / 10

"Russ Richards" (John Travolta) is a famous television weather reporter who also happens to own a snowmobile dealership. Nevertheless, because of unseasonal warm temperatures he has seen his business decline dramatically and is faced with foreclosure. Likewise, his girlfriend "Crystal" (Lisa Kudrow) is also facing some money problems and at the urging of Russ' friend "Gig" (Tim Roth) they come up with a plan to rig the Pennsylvania state lottery in order to win $6.4 million. However, since both Russ and Crystal work at the television station that hosts the lottery they need an outsider to actually cash the winning ticket. And this is when the problems really begin. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I liked several of the actors cast in this movie. Unfortunately, the character development was clearly inadequate and as a result it made the movie seem somewhat shallow and disjointed. At least that's how it seemed to me. In any case, although I liked the performances of both Tim Roth and Lisa Kudrow, I felt the overall movie could have used some improvement here and there and because of that I have to rate this film as slightly below average.

Well, well, well...Many people were curious what would be Travolta's follow-up stinker to his previous MEGA-stinker, "Battlefield Earth: The Saga Of A Dumb Hollywood Scientologist". And he didn't disappoint: "Lucky Numbers" is a piece of crap, not quite the kind of highly enjoyable garbage like that little intellectual exercise written by "Elron" Hubbard, but nevertheless trash of the highest order. Not to be enjoyed in any way, but marveled.1: the movie was utterly unfunny. 2: it was supposed to be a comedy. 1 + 2 = an embarrassment to all involved, to the viewer and to the maker of this crap.The plot is supposedly based on true events, yet so much in this movie smells of phoniness. It lacks realism. Besides, any film that has Michael Moore (a bad propaganda-movie maker and even worse actor and director) in its list of cast members can't have much chance of being quality stuff.Having realized after the first 10 minutes that this movie is going to be relentless in its pursuit of unfunniness, I was half-hoping that Travolta would once again introduce the concept of "leverage" into the plot. (Leverage was an essential tool used by aliens in "B.E.", riveting stuff, I assure you.) I thought maybe John's character could try to find out what Roth's character likes to eat and send him on a quest for rat - as happened in the afore-mentioned bomb.Forget his movies for a second if you can - and something tells me that LN is easy to forget (or at least advisable). The only thing I want to know now is how such a brilliant mind, such as Travolta undoubtedly has, can learn to fly an airplane? Is he an idiot savant? Or is learning to fly much easier than I thought? (MUCH easier.) Dear John, go back to your plans of making a sequel to your wonderfully inept "Battlefield Earth" saga. All us fans of that Edwoodsian mega-flop are praying (even though I'm an atheist!) that you make that follow-up stinker - and you promised you would!

Nora Ephron, between Bewitched and this movie should be mandated by law from making any more movies. Unrealistic, a complete lack of empathy with every day human being reality with the working or middle class. People just don't talk or act this way. Get out of Hollywoo and Beverly Hills.The one major exception - TIM ROTH, funny, bright, somewhat believable.Please don't waste your money on this movie or rental.I don't understand how Ms. Ephron has become this iconoclastic, Hollywood, revered individual. Give me a hint, please!Have I reached 10 lines yet?