X
- 2003
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2003
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 1 h 37 m
Directed By: James Foley
Written By: Doug Jung
- 2003
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 1 h 37 m
- 2003
- R
- Lions Gate Films
- 1 h 37 m
Confidence
59
8.4
Where to Watch
Directed By: James Foley
Written By: Doug Jung
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or average
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
59
57% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
11% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or average
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
59
57% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
11% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Confidence grooves on the giddy joy of storytelling -- on the digressive whimsy of good dialogue, on playful editing, on the ways in which con men -- and filmmakers -- psych out their victims.
Crafted with flair and style, and without pretension, Confidence achieves the modest goal of being an entertaining cinematic adaptation of a B-movie script with an A-list cast.
Scenes with Burns crackle with the toxic energy that makes Confidence a game worth playing.
Even as trick movies go, Confidence feels surfacey to a fault.
Paul Giamatti steals the picture as a sardonic grifter with a phobic terror of dirty toilet seats.
It fails to make us care, even a little, about the characters and what happens to them. There is nothing at stake.
Hordes of good actors evidently lined up to appear in Confidence, which wastes Weisz, Guzman, Logue, Forster, and Paul Giamatti, among others. Midway through, a grizzled Andy Garcia shambles in, chewing on a cigar, as an FBI agent; he's so fatuously hammy that his true narrative function is never in doubt.
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