Conning plentifully

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2014)

This movie develops itself in a captivating atmosphere of conning and swindling that involves not only the conning characters but also such types as FBI agents, mafia men, Congressmen and a mayor of New Jersey. The performers act very well in their roles convincing us of the portrayed figures. The set schemes are too complicated and sometimes their details become somewhat incomprehensible for the unguarded viewer. A FBI agent obtains the help of a couple of conners (a man and his smart and cunning girlfriend) to catch some corrupt politicians red handed but this generates a lot of complicated relations that involve the sentimental relationships between men and women with some unexpected consequences to the planned schemes. These conners and swindlers are not presented like the usual stereotypes of bad people but like normal people instead with human feelings and reactions from love to anger. The story is quite believable in terms of reality and well directed and acted in filming terms.