Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Robert J. Maxwell A nice cast and clever direction give this tale of a handful of low lifes conning a major bank out of much money a lot of zest. Edward Burns with his geometrical proboscis has an interesting high-pitched hoarse voice. The lilt in Paul Giamatti's speech is bewitching. Dustin Hoffman as the gum-chewing hyperactive big shot may have the juiciest part, but everyone loses out on succulence to diminutive but amply bosomed Rachel Weisz. She's a knock out. There are fine actors even in relatively small roles -- Andy Garcia, for instance, and Robert Forster.Anyone who wants to see an example of good classical movie making should watch the scene in which Weisz picks up John Carroll Lynch at a bar and invites him to sit at a table with the gang of con men, who seduce him into playing their game. Carroll's expressions of, first, bewilderment, then burgeoning interest, are nearly perfect, but they had to be captured on film my a director who knew his business and an editor, ditto.Unfortunately, the plot looks entertaining but it's so confusing, with so many twists, new developments, and betrayals -- some of them fakes -- that I was lost. Maybe you need to know a little more about finance than I do. I don't know what you have to do to "start up" a company, and while listening to Burns and the others explaining it in the simplest possible terms, I felt at times as if I were back in high school algebra class. God, how I hated algebra.But -- alright, sometimes the plot left me in a cloud of whirling dust, but it's all done with such panache that I watched it all the way through, even if I didn't understand it. The tempo is agitato. There are points of impressive humor embedded in the story. And I kept waiting for Rachel Weisz to remove some of her hampering outer garments. Burns is an engaging guy too -- handsome, but not repulsively so, if you know what I mean, and his accent is so metropolitan New Yorkish that it sounds like he grew up next door. He keeps saying things like "leave it up to he and I," which is an ungrammatical form called a hyperlearnedism. I kind of like that touch, whether it came from Burns or from Doug Jung, the writer. It's the kind of thing a small time hood like Burns' character WOULD say.

mrbusyb I'm not even going to waste my time with this movie. I've just got a few things to ask the writer of the script. Hey, is this what you truly think of your audience? Are we crap in your world? Why not just spit on us? I work hard to pay good money ($1.25) to purchase this movie and this is what I get? You know, this goes to prove that if reality was half as bad as Hollywood depicts it, the evil in this world would be four times as bad. And, by the way, thinking twenty moves ahead in a chess game is absurd. Why not have a chihuahua jump off from the Empire State Building onto the Statue of Liberty? Now that would be believable for sure. Is the word stupid written onto my forehead or what? Please, get therapy soon. In the meantime, go find yourself a day job.

huggingdelusions I was just kicking back feeling lazy when this fine movie appeared on TV. I figured it was a cheaply done film , but having no other use for my time I decided to give it a chance. Turns out the movie eclipsed my expectations a thousand times over. Not only was the acting good, the plot well put together, but the twist was amazing. Movies like Oceans Thirteen should take a notepad, a pen, and copy down how this movie was done because there is a lesson to be learned. Money and big actors may attract the crowd ,but it doesn't make a good movie. This my friend lacks the big actors and money, but its A GREAT MOVIE! I give this a 9/10 and i'm sure you will to.

Ryan McLelland Confidence is like a movie version of BBC's Hustle with an all-star cast. Edward Burns leads an all-star cast that includes Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz, Oscar nominated Paul Giamatti, and Oscar nominated Andy Garcia combined with a supporting cast that includes Donal Logue, Louis Guzman, Frankie G, Tiny Lister, Morris Chestnut, and Louis Lombardi. If the cast doesn't appeal to you yet, it will by the end of the movie.Ed Burns plays hustler Jake Vig who leads a small team of men that hustle different marks. Always thinking several moves ahead, Vig has thus far been successful in making his money and never being caught. However when he hustles his newest mark what he didn't know was the man was only a collection guy for Dustin Hoffman's Winston King. The money was King's and when one of Jake's men boasts about the job they just pulled, Jake suddenly finds himself with one P.O.'d 'mob-like' boss.Jake, one man down and with one of King's men attached, takes his crew, adds sexy con Lily (Rachel Weisz) and is forced to pull off a scam for King. The bad part is it is a UNTOUCHABLE (a great performance by Robert Forster for the three seconds he's on screen). The great part is, if they pull it off, each member of the team will get six figures.HOWEVER, right from the first scene we all realize that everything has already gone to hell. What comes next is the tale of how Burns, Weisz, Giamatti, and the rest of the crew try to pull of the scam, with special agent Andy Garcia right on their tale, teamed up with two crooked LA cops (Guzman, Logue) who had been working with Jake but find themselves in a bad spot with the fed riding with them.Fans of the movie are best to check out BBC's Hustle series, which is an hour long show with a new con each week. CONFIDENCE is a great flick with a great cast and does it a bit better then Hustle. It's the best con movie in years and if you are disappointed by flicks like Ocean's Twelve, you best rent this straight away.