The next movie to be reviewed will be "Focus" movie. I will be listing some good and bad things about the movie while kind of giving it a summary of what happens. There is a lot of ****SPOILERS **** in this review so if you haven't seen the movie yet I wouldn't read this further until after watching it.
The movie starts off with Will Smith's character "Nicky" pretending to be conned by Margot Robbie's character "Jess". Nicky knows the con that Jess is playing all along but still chooses to continue with it just to play along. In the opening sequence Jess along with a friend of hers attempt to rob Nicky but he already knows the con. I will be frank here I did not like the initial setup, and I thought maybe the director could have started the movie off with a better start. What I would have done would have been maybe to add an action sequence at the beginning something that would entice the audience to stay hooked from the beginning.
After that Nicky along with other colleagues who are con artists as well test Jess in order to determine if she is skilled enough to join them. They do many small thefts here and there by stealing peoples watches, phones, purses all the while distracting them. Ultimately Jess ends up joining the crew and they end up with a lot of money. They end up with about $1 million dollars and the movie is set up with Nicky gambling on players in the field with Jess to entice a rich man next to them to join in on the party. Nicky intentionally loses just so he can double up the money in the end. The whole part of that scene though was that Jess was unaware that it was a con and she was left out of the loop. Eventually Nicky ends up doubling the original $1 million dollars but then ends up giving Jess some thousands of dollars and then leaving her. I thought this was an okay part in the movie by showing another big con but at the same time it didn't make sense in the story line. I mean from the beginning both were in love and then next thing you know Nicky is abandoning Jess? I think the writing here and some other parts of the movie could have been better.
The movie then ends up with Nicky meeting up with "Gariga"some years later to pull off a heist against "Mcewen" played by Robert Taylor. There are a few things in the movie that we don't know about. The first one is that Jess from the beginning of the movie pretends to be Gariga's lover/girlfriend. Secondly Nicky's father who he mentions throughout the movie pretends to be a bodyguard. NIcky's father "Owens" played by Gerald McRaney. I thought that these were good twists to the movie and it made it more interesting and keep the audience entertained. For anyone that watches a lot of other tv shows that have a lot of twists and turns that are unexpected then you know what I'm talking about. The directors have done an excellent job with the twists in the movie that nobody sees coming.
Nicky ends up selling Rodrigo's real plans to MCewen and to 8+ other buyers to rack up a lot of money. Rodrigo catches onto this plans and ends up locking both Nicky and Jess together in an undisclosed location. Also there secretly unknown to Jess is Nicky's Father. Nicky knows that his father is there though so he is not worried. But Nicky asks his father to really shoot him to make it believable to Rodrigo. This was a good part in the movie and I thought it was done well but throughout the movie I would have liked to see some more action scenes maybe which could have made the movie that much better.
In the end Will smith ends up getting out from there with his father Owen and his love interest Jess. Although the father has always been a con man so he ends up taking all of the millions of dollars leaving Nicky and Jess with nothing.In addition both are walking to the hospital slowly that they find but Jess did end up stealing that one watch she was after from Rodrigo. I thought the ending was okay, but not the ending I would have done. I mean they could have made the ending slightly a little more appealing. For instance I would have made a more happy ending with Nicky, Jess, and Owens all sipping martinis at a bar or something a little more enticing to the audience.
Overall the movie was slightly good at the beginning but really good in one part of the middle portion. In addition some parts before the end were okay too. The only gripe I had was that in the middle of the movie I was having a hard time to want to watch. But the good news is that it picked up later so it wasn't too bad. For those of you who have seen the movie what did you think about it? Did the directors go the right direction with the ending of the movie? Did the story line appeal to you? or could they have done a better job with the movie? Let me know in the comments below.
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