This is strictly a by-the -numbers affair, camouflaged ever so slightly by some nifty rapid-fire dialogue and the requisite double crosses and plot twists.
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04/25/03
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Confidence (2003)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:106
Rotten:44
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: While it may not be the best con in town, the movie still manages to entertain with its colorful cast.
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $12,148,629
Synopsis: What Jake Vig (Edward Burns) doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of... [More]
Starring: Edward Burns, Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz
Director: James Foley
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Reviews for Confidence
Has all the appeal of an Enron hearing.
04/25/03
Hoffman rules the movie like the King rules the crime world, by what seems like some natural birthright.
04/25/03
The combination of emotional anemia, predictable plotting and tepid language makes what might have been a crackerjack treat play like a soggy piece of popcorn.
04/25/03
How much you're willing to give Foley and company a pass for this depends on how much you dig this genre's familiar elements.
04/25/03
Top CriticUnlike the best cons, we can always see the con artists at work. But at least it's fun to welcome James Foley back to the game.
04/25/03
Top CriticAs pulp entertainment, Confidence is great fun and Foley's first good movie since the very different Glengarry Glen Ross.
04/25/03
Top CriticRarely has being bad seemed this dull.
04/25/03
Confidence is a slight-of-hand we've seen before but it's handled with enough confidence and pizazz to make it seem fresher than it is.
04/25/03
While it is no classic, it is a thoroughly engaging, provocative and funny film, especially true if you like sardonic humour.
04/25/03
Unlike with Mamet, there's no real payoff, not in insights, psychology or language -- just a clutch of anxious-to -charm movie stars, a puzzle-box plot, and an ending that encourages us to applaud venality.
04/25/03
Top CriticLead by a confident cast, Confidence gives yet another entertaining view of the wonderful world of con artists
04/25/03
Confidence isn't great and it's not trying to be. It just wants to take your money and show you a good time. It's an enjoyable way to be taken.
04/25/03
A caper thriller that's fast, funny and smart.
04/25/03
Highly erratic.
04/25/03
Confidence is The Sting without period appeal, humor, the charisma of Robert Redford or Paul Newman and the quietly seething villainy of Robert Shaw.
04/25/03
Confidence is really no more than a B-movie with a particularly ace cast. But that's part of the pleasure.
04/25/03
Worth the price of admission if only to see Hoffman play a slimeball, he's great!
04/25/03
Still entertaining even if you figure out where it's heading.
04/25/03
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