All these poker movies...

Not just that... they do not seem to show the table action well. That is my chief complaint. Half the time you have no idea what is going on in the hand and they are like one giant, vague montage. No strategy, no table images established... they should have the situations set up so we can develop our own opinion of the hands in play IMO... but we are never given enough information, often not even knowing what the main character has until he turns it over.

I think you could put suspense in a poker scene but they always focus on the dramatic angle and forget that the suspense of how the hands itself play out, apart from its ramifications on anything outside of the room, is what attracts us to these movies in the first place.

Rounders is a classic to me and the only poker movie I even like but even it was imperfect in this regard.

"not the good ones like Rounders"

From a strictly poker perspective, Rounders is awful. It is entertaining, but the poker played in the movie is nothing short of terrible.