dylanvaughn-99920 This movie is all very true and helpful. I have never given a movie ten stars before, but this movie blew me away with their mind games. The acting is great to with amazing actors.

Mat DeLong Will Smith and Margot Robbie (and all the supporting actors) do a great job with what they are given. These are talented actors for sure, as they managed to keep me watching all the way to the end of this awful movie.The problems: Main characters are fairly one-dimensional and unbelievableThe first half of the movie has nothing to do with the second half other than a couple minor references. There is no coherent story arc, just the flat, under-developed love interest.I suggest watching 'The Score' instead.

Strega Granger This movie will totally make you... unfocused! You might watch the trailer and think: it doesn't look bad, I will give it a try! This is a perfect example of deception. You expect one thing, and you get another, specially if you read the plot summary!! Don't do that, because you will already know half of the movie!! That is what happened to me, I watched the trailer and then read the summary, boy was it a big mistake! While I was watching the movie I was like, when is the thing of the summary happening? Hello! Way half the movie! So if you read it you can skip the first half of the film!! Or you can read mine, which is minute 1 in the movie and find the rest for yourself! Ah! Either way, you will feel like, uh? Where is the plot!!???Yes, fresh Prince of Bel-Air is in there, but sorry, Mr Smith has been going down since After Earth, really a pity, but he is still a box office caller... So the film might earn some money, specially as the first viewers go to watch it, but then, it will go downwards faster than you can say Grey!! In the film there is al Margot big bad Wolf Street Wolf Robbie, not a bad actress, but she will need something better to show how well an actress she is.Save yourself some money and go to the zoo! Watching the monkeys sleep will be a better entertainment than watching this movie. BANANA!

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Focus" is an American 100-minute movie from 2015, so by now it is two years old. It was written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, a duo of filmmakers that has collaborated for a really long time and this resulted in some good and some not so good works apparently. I guess this one here is somewhere in-between, maybe closer to the not so good. It features Will Smith and Margot Robbie as the lead actors and while both are really big names, I still don't see that great talent in both of them, especially Robbie. They aren't bad actors, but they are also far from convincing unfortunately when their characters require true range and depth and they can only partially may make up for these shortcoming with their great deal of charisma. Then again, they fit nicely in here because this movie (and the script in particular) are also about make-believe. The two filmmakers I mentioned earlier definitely need a lesson in subtlety. There are many many scenes and moments, and eventually the entire film, where they go way over the top and not in a good way at all. The first meeting between the two protagonists is a good example. Yes they want to depict that teacher-student relationship and show us how skilled Smith is, but all those tricks, all that he steals from her is just too much. Half of the items would really have been enough. This is a bit of shame as the "angry boyfriend" scene before that was actually not too bad. And there are more food scenes like the one with BD Wong (he gave a nice supporting performance and is probably among Asia's best in Hollywood right now), which was somewhat fun to see and the best thing is you don't even have to care about American Football to appreciate it because I sure don't. But these bright moments are quickly made up for and the negative element wins eventually. It's all so pompous, pseudo-intelligent and exaggerated that it's almost impossible to appreciate the film as a whole. Robbie and Smith are just means for the story and they also do not manage to elevate the script. The weakest moment of the film is probably the ending. I was tempted to give it a better rating before that final scene with Smith's character's father, but lets be honest here. A dad who shoots his brother in the chest (even with the medical justification) is just too much and this is where the film really loses it all and hits rock-bottom. I guess you can check this one out if you really care a lot about the world of con men, but it is still not a satisfying take and elaboration on the subject either. So maybe only check it out if you are a huge Smith and/or Robbie fan. Otherwise skip it and you are not missing much, especially not in terms of realism and fraud as the biggest trick pulled off in here was to make audiences believe this is actually a convincing work. Thumbs down.