Listless 'Lucky You' throws down a flop.(Life - Scene)(Movie review)

Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI - Houston Chronicle

A gambler walks into a pawn shop, hawking a camera. The proprietress, a tough dame with long gray hair, offers $150. He wants $300. Nope, she says, $150. She already has four cameras exactly like it in the display case.

Ah, says the gambler. But this fourth camera comes in the original box. He then launches into some gorgeous flimflam on the camera, the box and the adjusted value of the items in the case, charming the pawnbroker into an extra 50 bucks - "for the entertainment," she says, the glint in her eye reflecting ours. But it fades.

The buzz and wit of the opening scene of "Lucky You" fades, too, …