(2003)
2.5
Adam Bregman
Confidence begins with a dry and uninspired action sequence, and despite many plot twists and turns, ends up no more interesting for them. As lead Jake Vig, Edward Burns, is unconvincing, and his narration is clunky. As the movie's femme fatale, Rachel Weisz starts out a tough pickpocket, but then melts into the usual weak female role, seemingly the only one available to women in this sort of caper flicks. Only Dustin Hoffman has any sort of presence in the film, playing a creepy crime boss named "the King." The plot is too difficult to follow, which wouldn't be a problem, if it had any sort of hook to keep the audience with it. But there's no chemistry between Burns and Weisz, and Vig's crime crew is obnoxious when they are supposed to be funny. Worse yet, all the scams Vig pulls are improbable; we never really get the idea that he has any skill in this profession, even though the script mentions repeatedly that he's a pro. Confidence would be watchable as a run-of-the-mill TV crime show, but as a feature film with a cast this highly-regarded, it's a waste of time.
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Confidence (2003)
