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The Con Is On (2018)

May. 04,2018
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3.8
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R
| Comedy Crime
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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.

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Phonearl
2018/05/04

Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Bluebell Alcock
2018/05/05

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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Kien Navarro
2018/05/06

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Ella-May O'Brien
2018/05/07

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Gordon-11
2018/05/08

This film tells the story of a coupe who goes to Los Angeles for a heist, so that they can pay off their gambling debt.The story is very silly, and the characters are very silly too. To see Tim Roth and Uma Thurman drinking all the time in a mischievous manner is quite funny. It is quite funny to see the messed up romantic relationships among the characters. I like the fact that there is racial diversity as well. Overall, I think it is a film to turn your brain off and enjoy.

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Colin_Sibthorpe_II
2018/05/09

You won't see a worse movie than this. No surprise it took 3 years to get released.What I wonder is, how does something like this work? It is inconceivable there could be any good reviews or word of mouth recommendations. Does it aim to get its production costs back purely through product placement?Incidentally.....I gave 2 stars solely because I've read that 1 star reviews don't get counted. It should really be 0 stars.

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Gabriella-R
2018/05/10

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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Ian
2018/05/11

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.

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