The Las Vegas-set The Player has been hyped up as a comeback vehicle for Wesley Snipes, but I definitely wouldn't call this a comeback. He stars as the "pit boss" of a group of extraordinarily rich people who bet on crimes of the future. Basically, they have the technology of Minority Report, but instead of preventing the crimes, they employ a "Player" (Philip Winchester) and bet on whether he can stop them. Yeah, it's dumb. The action is alright, but the script and characters aren't well constructed. At one point, someone says this: "They'll be sorry. Whoever they are, they'll be sorry." He might actually be referring to the people who tuned in to watch the show.
When it starts: Thursday, Sept. 24, at 10 p.m. on NBC
