Focus
2015
**
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Cena
Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro, Gerald McRaney, B.D. Wong, Robert Taylor, Dominic Fumusa, Brennan Brown, Griff Furst, Adrian Martinez
Nicky is a weathered con man who takes Jessie, an aspiring con woman, under his wing. They fall in love, or do they? Can they ever really trust one another? This Will Smith vehicle joins a long line of unoriginal con movies which feature a cast of duplicitous, uninteresting characters and ridiculously implausible cons. The proceedings become dull and predictable when every dramatic twist is part of an elaborate con and each scene that appears to have some emotional heft turns out to be fake.
