Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
A rom-com mixed with crime.
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 07/03/2015
"When you have their attention, you can take whatever you want. You have to be safe."
"Focus" is a romantic crime movie in which the art of pickpocketing, manipulating and swindling is the point of focus (how appropriate). The end result isn't memorable cinema, but a typical popcorn movie with a scam duo fluttering around each other as lovestruck butterflies, playing a masterful game of seduction. Or is it also a con game? The whole film is a succession of ingenious orchestrated scams and ruses. Unfortunately, the ultimate scam is explained in detail very early in the film, so you can predict which direction its heading. Although, it's as entertaining as "Ocean's Eleven", filled with illusions as in "Now You See Me" and with a romantic storyline squirming itself through it.
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Rating of
3/4
Let's Focus now
Matthew Brady - wrote on 03/09/2015
The biggest thing that con-men can't stand is being coned be other con-men, now try to let that sink in.
The story is about a long-time grifter decides to mentor a young, attractive woman, but things get complicated when he the two become romantically involved.
Okay I got to admit I wasn't very interested in Focus when I first heard about it, I just thought it was another mediocre Will Smith film that's trying to be a box office hit, even when the trailer came out I still wasn't interested in it. Until I sawed my favorite YouTube reviewer Chris Stuckmann reviewed the movie and give it a positive rating and shortly after that I sawed this movie hit number one at the box office, and now I was interested and after seeing the movie I can say that the movie was...okay.
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