Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

wadefan-897-342420 The Forger is nowhere near as most critics make it out to be. It has a talented cast, solid pacing, a great family component and a classic Travolta performance. It will keep you hooked throughout. However, it's never surprising and doesn't break any new ground. (3/5)

Martin van de Wardt-Olde Riekerink It is about motives. About loyalty, and how that fades away given the right amount of wrongdoing. It is about seizing opportunity against the odds. Looking for that spark of hope to hold on to. Yes, it all ends well, it ís Hollywood after all. But this movie manages to hold on to that gloom of despair for a long time, and shows that it is not all sunshine after the clouds have gone. It shows in the end that human existence is short of one main ingredient only; the time spent with loved ones. There is a heist in here, there is a cop, some villains and a forgery. It's entertainment, and not the main subject of this movie. Well shot, well lit, with ample telling silences. I liked it a lot. I liked the characters a lot, I liked Travolta acting, especially when he acts alongside his "son"

eddie_baggins A curious mix of family drama and crime thriller that never even begins to threaten to become a good cohesive mix, Philip Martin's The Forger is one of countless other films in years past that has potential yet fails to realise it due to lacklustre acting, scripting and some quite dire direction.Starring the now long time mojo-less John Travolta, The Forger gives the near unrecognisable 70's/80's icon a chance to shine as art loving forger (and proud goatee sporting) Raymond Cutter who just wants to spend some quality time with his dying son Will played by Tree of Life's Tye Sheridan but gets caught up with some mean old baddies who want him to do one last job but Travolta fails to bring anything to the table other than a torrid hairdo and while his interplay with Sheridan can be at times humorous and almost affecting, it doesn't work enough to make up for the Forger's shoddily handled storytelling.Every man, women, child and all those in between love a good heist movie, the tension of the set-up, the plans and the execution can make for white knuckle thrills but the Forger, to its detriment, never bothers to raise so much as a slight pulse and by the films so called finale, you'll be wondering if you've in fact been conned into "one last score" that just doesn't payoff. We could've done with double the dose of planning and making paint and far less meandering father/son relationship drama and for all the films effort to make us care for both Raymond and Will, by the end we frankly couldn't care less about their plight even though the film's final scene shows us just what could've been.Wasting a ripe story, industry vet Christopher Plummer and generally wasting our time with a movie that promises something yet delivers nothing, The Forger is a direct to DVD effort than you can stay well away from and is another nail in the increasingly shut coffin lid that now lays almost perfectly flush over the casket of John Travolta's slowly dying career.1 ½ uneven soul patches out of 5

leonblackwood Review: This movie is watchable, just because you want to know if they get away with the heist but it does seem cheap and the acting isn't that great. Travolta plays a art forger who has to take on one last job to pay of a debt to a criminal who bribed a judge to get him released from prison 10 months early so be with his son, who is dying of cancer. Whilst preparing for the heist, he spends time with his son who asks for three wishes which are to see his mum, who he has never seen before, to get laid and to help his dad with the heist. After much persuasion, he teaches his son the ropes to steal an expensive painting by Claude Monet and he also recruits his father who has knowledge in the heist game. With the police hot on there tail, they set out to swap the painting with a replica whilst cooperating with a certain police officer who believes that his motives are not what they seem. I'm not used to the moody Travolta, who has lost his spark lately but he managed to pull of a good performance, even though this film seemed like it was made for DVD. I did get quite confused when it came to the actual heist because it seemed way to easy and I haven't got a clue how they got away with it. I also didn't understand how they were able to leave the country so easy after being accused of stealing a painting but thats just me being picky. The storyline was a bit sketchy but I did like the bond between Travolta and his son, which started off to be a little awkward but once he knew that his dads intentions were genuine, they bonded quite well. Christopher Plummer brought light to the difficult situation with his humorous attitude but I didn't quite understand what happened to the gangster who needed the painting to pay of his debt. Anyway, it's not the most intelligent heist movie that I've seen but it's watchable because of the different elements involved. Average!Round-Up: What has happened to Travolta lately! I can understand why his acting career had to be put on the back burner lately, after losing his son in 2009 whilst on a trip in the Bahamas, so that might explain why he only releases one film a year since then. His career has definitely had its up and downs throughout the years, especially during the 80's after he struggled to make a decent movie after pairing up with Olivia Newton John again, in the awful Two of a Kind but he came back with smash hits during the 90s in movies like Pulp Fiction, which brought him back into the limelight, Get Shorty, Phenomenon, Broken Arrow, Michael, Face/Off, Primary Colours, A Civil Action and a Generals Daughter. After investing in the terrible Battlefield Earth, his career has never hit the success as it did during the 90s but his acting abilities have never been questioned. He seems to deep in and out of different genres by starring in comedies like Old Dogs and Hairspray one minute and then moving to action movies like the Taking of Pelham 123 and From Paris With Love the next, so his career is definitely not stable at the moment. I do wish him all the best after such a terrible tragedy in his life and I'm sure Tarantino is busy writing another movie to bring him back to mainstream cinema. Anyway, this is the first movie directed by Philip Martin for the big screen so I can't criticise him that much. He did bring different elements to the project which made it quite interesting but it did seem low budget and sketchy. Basically, it's better than I expected but it's still not the standard that I expect from Travolta.Budget: $11million Worldwide Gross: N/AI recommend this movie to people who are into their crime/drama/thrillers about a man who seeks help from a gangster so he can be released from prison 10 months early to spend some time with his dying son but he has to steal a expensive painting to pay back the debt. 3/10