The Con Is On (2018)

i must have seen a different film!!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

best movie i've ever seen.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Attracted by the cast, I was sorely disappointed.The acting felt like some poor, second rate 'Murder She Wrote' tribute, stretched into an hour and a half.There are so many better movies to watch, given the time.

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

There's a great script here struggling to get out. Alas, it fails to even open the door.Writer/director! When will producers learn!? I'm guessing Never so we continue to be plagued by these half-a**ed screenplays that desperately need a 2nd or 3rd eye to curb the writer's sense of brilliance! (That's irony for our American friends.)Let's start with the title. It's not a movie about a con. Jesus! C'mon guys, at least get the terminology right. It's more a sort of comedy caper/heist movie, but it's not even that.The worst character by far is Tim Roth's Peter. No doubt Roth enjoyed playing him although it would be as challenging as waking up in the morning. He's so lacking in couth it's absolutely impossible to imagine he could ever have gotten involved with Alice Eve or Uma Thurman, zany and cracked though their characters may be.Maggie Q must have had a similar challenge with her character.Highlight of the movie is Stephen Fry playing, well, Stephen Fry's "Dear boy" character, but he does it so naturally and so well. Although not a major character he does help redeem it from the pit.It's not totally unwatchable. Well, if you're looking for a good plot or well-defined characters or well, anything, then it is...Okay, it has good production values and a stellar cast but they're simply wasted, wasted, wasted.I didn't think it was quite as bad as other reviews suggest which I find hard to believe! But it is extremely disappointing.

I cannot believe that somebody (or somebodies) allowed the making of this for 13,000,000. They would have been better off to go out into the woods with the money and burn it. There's not a single likable character in the whole film. All of them are what I call "Darwin Award" winners (for service to humanity by removing themselves from it). Unfortunately, none of the main characters gets killed. They just go on with their idiotic behaviour. Is this what the "film" makers are trying to say: That the world is just full of alcoholic, gambling addicted thieves and killers, and we have to get used to it to survive? Even the Catholic Church? In short, neither clever nor funny (okay, one genuinely funny scene with the ring - but highly improbable). And it took 5 (!) production companies to get this mess made. Maybe that's what it was - an elephant designed by a committee that came out an aardvark (with apologies to aardvarks). Too bad there aren't negative ratings here. I expect this to win all sorts of razzies from wherever they give them out.