The movie trailer did not give justice to Focus - it is actually a fun crime/caper comedy that puts Will Smith back in the game after some lackluster films (After Earth, Seven Pounds and that awful Winter's Tale anyone?). He plays Nicky, a 3rd generation con artist who trains a neophyte (Margot Robbie, on a roll after The Wolf of Wall Street) under her wings and eventually falls in love with.
The film basically shows the pair dealing on with different groups that they live and thrive on from football games to auto racing.
Smith and Robbie are joined by terrific character actors such as Major Dad and House of Cards' Gerald McRaney, Rodrigo Santoro (300), BD Wong (Father of the Bride) and scene stealer Adrian Martinez as Nicky's fellow conman and friend Farhad. As the title suggests, with a lot of things happening and each
character trying to outsmart each other, one and even us the audience
shouldn't lose focus.
Credit should also be given to the film for choosing Argentina as one of it's locations - the only memory I have of the South American country in movie pop culture was in Evita. Buenos Aires was photographed well and it reminded us that there's more in that continent than Brazil alone.
Focus is written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the team who made the highly entertaining and smart comedies I Love You Phillip Morris and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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