Unlike Karel Reisz and James Toback's original 1974 Gambler, the Mark Wahlberg-led update assumes a belief in gambling addiction. Someone who loses thousands upon thousands to roulette was probably born that way. As if to vindicate a remake, writer William Monahan (The Departed) twists his leading man's destructive personality even tighter. The Gambler 2014 becomes a movie about bulls****ing — to friends, to family, to self, with Wahlberg's Jim Bennett the source of his own problem.