The Con Is On

R 3.8
2018 1 hr 35 min Comedy , Crime

In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.

  • Cast:
    Uma Thurman , Tim Roth , Alice Eve , Parker Posey , Sofía Vergara , Maggie Q , Crispin Glover

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Reviews

Greenes
2018/05/04

Please don't spend money on this.

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Smartorhypo
2018/05/05

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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CrawlerChunky
2018/05/06

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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SanEat
2018/05/07

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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Kapten Video
2018/05/08

I won't go on for long about this "con comedy" - the less said about this unfunny uninspired work, the better.Tim Roth, Uma Thurman, Maggie Q, Sofia Vergara, Alice Eve, Stephen Fry, Crispin Glover, Parker Posey... The cast is promising, the movie itself is not. In fact, it's kind of a bore.Some in the audience seemed to like the movie and chuckled regularly, at least in the beginning. The others just sat and watched with silent expectance of something interesting to happen. Which never did.The story doesn't even have much of a conning people game going on. At least not enough to truly justify the "con comedy" moniker.The characters are promising, although they never do something watchworthy. Ultimately, everybody feels like a supporting character - kind of colorful by oneself and repeatedly doing one's schtick to add comic relief. Which means they are nice to have around but not really able to carry the story.I am also not a fan of this theatrical style of acting which mostly seems to convey: I don't really feel connected with or inspired by the material but I am a professional, I want to work and will carry this through just relying on willpower.Uma Thurman seems especially artificial, maybe because she has markedly more screen time than any other actress here.Tim Roth as the male lead doesn't even need to hide his indifference because his character has given up also and prefers to just sit and drink all the time.The producers even managed to make the title less striking before releasing the damn thing. I like the original title, "The Brits Are Coming", better. Why replace it with a weak wordplay?BTW, the filming was completed in 2015, so it took the project three years to receive a theatrical release.

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Greg Francis
2018/05/09

With a fairly decent group of actors I had faith that this movie could not be as terrible as some people claim, my bad. I'm guessing that they got together and decided to try and make a "caper flick" in one weekend with a budget of about $100. There is even a gunshot that MOVES down about 6 inches between two shots.The plot is inane and the over-acting is ridiculous. Don't waste your time, everyone associated with this should be ashamed, it is literally the quality of a high school project.

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dutyfreefm
2018/05/10

Great film ignore all these Americans who think fart jokes are funny ! Script was a work of art !

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Gabriella-R
2018/05/11

Despite the fact the main characters are actors I usually like, the movie itself is a disaster. The plot seemed kind of interesting at the beginning, it presented some good elements, cars, houses, beautiful photography and beautiful location but everything was just superficial and the characters' storyline doesn't get deeper, real nor interesting. The script seems messy and the action is going nowhere. I got bored halfway through it and still expected something interesting to happen but there wasn't a single interesting moment during the 90 minutes of the movie. It lacks consistency and purpose.

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