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Release Date: 16 September, 2003 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $0.99! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
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Confidence
Keep your friends close and your money closer.
"One sweet, sexy sting of a movie!"~ Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"A slick and smart caper movie."~ Jeffrey Lyons, NBC
When professional grifter Jake Vig (Edward Burns) chooses the weong mark in The King (Dustin Hoffman), he is given two choices; pull off a near impossible heist or lose his life. Needing all the help he can get, Jake brings in beautiful con artist Lily (Rachel Weisz) and a mixed group of "professionals". Nonetheless, with the King riding him and a pesky Special Agent (Andy Garcia) on his tail, Jake and his team look to have the odds stacked against them.
"A very smart thriller!"~Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
I enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it.
The true sequel to OCEAN'S ELEVEN
If you enjoyed the 2001 version of OCEAN'S ELEVEN with its great ensemble cast and witty dialogue with a great twist at the end then the movie "Confidence" should definitely appeal to you. In fact I would go as far as to say that this movie is the true sequel to the Clooney vehicle and not the OCEANS TWELVE that appeared in the same year.
And hey, Andy Garcia even shows up in this movie also, this time as a federal agent hunting down the hero of the movie (played by Edward Burns).
The movie opens with a familat movie trick. Held at gunpoint with his life on the line the hero recounts in flashbacks how he found himself in his present predicament. We learn that his crew pulled of a con on an accountant, taking the man for over $100,000.
The only problem is that said accountant was playing with the money of big-time mobster "The King" (played with zany relish by Dustin Hoffman), and he's none to happy with their antics.
So, the team strike a deal with King to pull off another sting this time against King's sworn enemy, a crooked banker, for a cool $5 million.
What follows is fairly familiar territory (at least for those who saw OCEAN'S ELEVEN). The additional members of the team are assembled and the job is pulled through a series of machinations. Then at the end there is a major twist that turns everything on its head, but still fits in well with the overall structure of the story.
The performances are also very good in this movie with top marks doing to Hoffman as an ADHD mobster and Rachel Weisz as a pickpocket who is recruited onto the team to help snare one of the vice presidents at the targeted bank.
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