Thursday 28 December 2017

Focus (2014 John Requa, Glen Ficarra & scr)

You can trace the amorous thief plot back to Trouble in Paradise and The Lady Eve - though this has more in common with The Sting with its long game of double crosses (admittedly, didn't see the last ingenious one coming - well, yes I did in fact). Will Smith and Margot Robbie have chemistry, but we've kinda been here before, down to their own version of the Coates-Soderburgh hotel scene from Out Of Sight.



They wrote Bad Santa and I Love You Philip Morris and directed that and Crazy, Stupid Love. The setting up of player 55 though is ingenious and explains all the audience's objections.

With Adrian Martinez, Gerald McRaney, Rodrigo Santoro, BD Wong.

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