Focus Review — collider.com

A con artist movie has to be clever.  It’s what puts the “art” in “con artist”.  Focus may have all of the confidence of a con man, but it never earns any of that confidence.  Any good con involves misdirection and slight of hand, but writer-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are more concerned with the distraction than the payoff.  Everything about the movie is slick, pretty, and without an ounce of substance as the filmmakers try to force a romance between two actors with no chemistry and pickup a score minus the effort.

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