Very Cool!!!

good back-story, and good acting

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I won't go on for long about this "con comedy" - the less said about this unfunny uninspired work, the better.Tim Roth, Uma Thurman, Maggie Q, Sofia Vergara, Alice Eve, Stephen Fry, Crispin Glover, Parker Posey... The cast is promising, the movie itself is not. In fact, it's kind of a bore.Some in the audience seemed to like the movie and chuckled regularly, at least in the beginning. The others just sat and watched with silent expectance of something interesting to happen. Which never did.The story doesn't even have much of a conning people game going on. At least not enough to truly justify the "con comedy" moniker.The characters are promising, although they never do something watchworthy. Ultimately, everybody feels like a supporting character - kind of colorful by oneself and repeatedly doing one's schtick to add comic relief. Which means they are nice to have around but not really able to carry the story.I am also not a fan of this theatrical style of acting which mostly seems to convey: I don't really feel connected with or inspired by the material but I am a professional, I want to work and will carry this through just relying on willpower.Uma Thurman seems especially artificial, maybe because she has markedly more screen time than any other actress here.Tim Roth as the male lead doesn't even need to hide his indifference because his character has given up also and prefers to just sit and drink all the time.The producers even managed to make the title less striking before releasing the damn thing. I like the original title, "The Brits Are Coming", better. Why replace it with a weak wordplay?BTW, the filming was completed in 2015, so it took the project three years to receive a theatrical release.

This is one of those movies where the cast can be trully misleading in what concerns the quality of the movie. Confronted with miserable and disconnected dialogues and a narrative that looks more like a patchwork, unrelated, lackiing any aesthetic or dramatic notion, one can only expect the actors to have been generously paid to submit to such a poorly produced film.Such a cast - with actors who have proven themselves several times, over the yeras in both cinema and television - deserved a far more inteligent and challenging film. It looks like as if the Director just grabed a series of clichés from parts previously played by some of these actors and poured out senseless into a narrative with so much more potential. Tim Roth appears as drunk and desoriented,Sofia Vergara a derranged over the edge woman, Maggie Q as a cold blooded killer... well, you get the point.Being advertised and titled as a "con movie" kind of film, I was expecting, action, some witty and cuning dialogs, maybe a few satirical remarks and some action... well, not even close. What a waste of good actors!The real con was using fine actors to attract people to see such a mediocre film..

You won't see a worse movie than this. No surprise it took 3 years to get released.What I wonder is, how does something like this work? It is inconceivable there could be any good reviews or word of mouth recommendations. Does it aim to get its production costs back purely through product placement?Incidentally.....I gave 2 stars solely because I've read that 1 star reviews don't get counted. It should really be 0 stars.

I can't figure out what the purpose of this movie was or what it was trying to do. I don't know if it was attempting to display overacting on purpose as a parody of itself or if they were actually trying to be serious. Whatever it was it failed miserably. The result was an awkward movie that I had a hard time watching. It was caught in between something and something else. Very strange that they would even release this the way it turned out. They should have saved themselves some embarrassment and just shoved this one into the archives. It was absolutely terrible on all fronts. Not one good thing I can even think to say about this movie (well maybe that every scene didn't have them smoking fake cigarettes like a lot of others are doing these days) and I'm being generous. This is Hollywood at it's worst but hey, they've been doing a lot of this kind of garbage lately so this is nothing new. This is one of those flicks that almost makes me want to stop wasting my time watching movies. Luckily there are still some decent ones around but this is not one of them. Now I need to go find some deodorizer to get rid of the stink that is still in my nose. What is that smell anyway?