Focus (2015)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Nicky Spurgeon	Will Smith	½
Jess Barrett	Margot Robbie	½
Garriga	Rodrigo Santoro	½
Bucky Spurgeon	Gerald McRaney	½
Liyuan Tse	B. D. Wong
McEwen	Robert Taylor	-
Jared Mukulski	Dominic Fumusa	-
Horst	Brennan Brown	-
Gareth	Griff Furst	-
Farhad	Adrian Martinez	½

Review

This film and its lead characters are music video slick. And to make things worse, the filmmaking duo Glenn Ficarra / John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love) are absolutely infatuated with their material. There is no ironic distance and no humour in here; it’s all about showing off. Which is a shame, because the script is clever and has potential as a fresh look at modern con artists and swindlers. Leads Will Smith and Margot Robbie are still quite convincing in their parts and look to have had some chemistry on set. B. D. Wong is great fun in a two-scene role as a compulsive gambler, which incidentally is also the film's most intense segment.