Confidence (CONfidence) (2003)

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"  After the success of Ocean's 11 two years earlier, Hollywood tries to repeat the formula of a sexy cast trying to commit a slight-of-hand heist but more in the vein of a confidence scam with this movie, which is simply and aptly (not to mention, uncreatively, in my opinion) called Confidence. With its cast consisting of Dustin Hoffman, Ed Burns, the ever-so-beautiful Rachel Weisz, Luis Guzman and Paul Giamatti, and the one runover from the Ocean's movie, Andy Garcia, it comes pretty damn cl"

A good movie

“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick. Still, I remember it very well, I had no idea what to expect from the damned thing and I wanted to watch it just mostly because Dustin Hoffman was involved. Basically, it is a rather typical feature dealing with a con and I always had a weak spot for the genre. Of course, the story was really far-fetched but, in this case, it didn’t bother too much since there was a nice néo-noir mood and a fine cast involved (Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, Paul Giamatti) and I thought it was usually quite entertaining. Concerning Edward Burns, I always thought he was an interesting actor but, unfortunately, it would be one of the last watchable movies he would make and, since then, he has been involved in some rea” read more