Confidence (2003)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 108 | Rotten: 45
While it may not be the best con in town, the movie still manages to entertain with its colorful cast.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 16
While it may not be the best con in town, the movie still manages to entertain with its colorful cast.
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James Foley directs the slick crime caper Confidence, written by first-time screenwriter Doug Jung. Told in flashback, smooth-talking con man Jake Vig (Edward Burns) relates an elaborate scheme orchestrated by his gang :Gordo (Paul Giamatti), Miles (Brian Van Holt), and Big Al (Louis Lombardi). The crew pulls off a swindling job stealing money from a guy named Lionel (Leland Orser), who turns out to be a mob accountant for the crazy crime boss known as the King (Dustin Hoffman). After the damage
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Cast
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Edward Burns
Jake Vig -
Rachel Weisz
Lily -
Andy Garcia
Gunther Butan -
Dustin Hoffman
The King -
Paul Giamatti
Gordo -
Donal Logue
Lloyd Whitworth -
Luis Guzman
Manzano -
Brian Van Holt
Miles -
Franky G
Lupus -
Morris Chestnut
Travis -
Robert Forster
Morgan Price -
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All Critics (170) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (109) | Rotten (47) | DVD (26)
Overplotted, overcontrived, overshot and overedited.
Top CriticThis is a one sweet sexy sting of a movie.
Identity is suicidally insecure.
What it shares with most of its predecessors is a sterling cast, in this instance almost entirely male, and the willingness of several talented performers to play against type, with entertainingly comic effect.
... Confidence does suffer a bit from some plot devices that haven't been original since The Sting, but it's a top-notch character study and a fun exercise in style.
Surely there is something wrong with a movie that is supposed to make you go Wow! yet instead provokes a great big Huh?
Con man meets the mob. Violent, grown-up tale.
Jammed with double and triple-crosses that make Doug Jung's confusing screenplay secondary to the film's overall look.
While it sometimes fails to live up to its title, Confidence ultimately, wins us over-in short, it dazzlingly does what all good cons are supposed to do.
Misses the first rule of whodunnit filmmaking and never recovers; if you fool me once, you have to at least give me a reason to care that I've been fooled.
...the performances elevate a standard con game plot.
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