Diversion

Focus a une grande qualité : il est amusant et imprévisible dans ses retournements de situation. Et il est visuellement magnifique. Les costumes, les décors, tout a un charme glamour soigné. Will et Robbie sont bien, la scène du football américain est top. Seulement, la tentative de faire du finale le plus grand et le plus surprenant des rebondissements dépasse les limites de la crédibilité. Moins aurait été plus. Malgré cela, je donne quatre étoiles. Parce que le film m'a agréablement surpris, ce qui est rare dans le courant dominant hollywoodien avec des ambitions pas particulièrement élevées. (17/03/2015)

Focus started, offered something, and then bewitched me with the scene where Will Smith tricked a greedy gambling Vietnamese guy. During the scene, I literally stopped breathing, but afterward, it all went too hell because the movie became incredibly boring. Towards the end of the movie, it again scored some points with a more interesting scene and after that, it was already the end. Focus is like that. Overall, it was shit, but here and there it offers a cinematographic delicacy. Well, and whether it is worth watching, you have to judge that for yourselves. If you ask me, were it not for Will and Margot Robbie I wouldn’t even remember it a day after watching it. (01/06/2016)

I put Focus on at a very emotional time in my life, when I was feeling everything much more intensely and perhaps quite uncritically. Anyway, it's a perfectly ordinary movie, of which hundreds have been made in America, but I still have my heart in my eyes and I'll argue that this one is much more powerful and profound. In fact, things spark like thunder between the truly divinely beautiful Margot and Will, and I felt that even Romeo and Juliet's love couldn't match theirs. (02/11/2015)

A pleasant, genre hybrid with interesting twists and great actors. Smith was in desperate need for a come-back, and if it wasn’t for that (over the top) final twist, it would have worked. However, Margot Robbie confirms her abilities and comes across as a talented actress who has more to her than “just" the luck of catching Scorsese’s eye. A visual feast for the eyes. (21/06/2015)

Focus is unpredictable in key twists, so different from most heist films, which often rely on meticulous visuals and period hits, but go forward with a smile and in clearly laid tracks. There is plenty of gloss here too, but you never know what card the main characters will turn over. It's a shame about the ending, which very far from believable. Because as long as stayed within the acceptable, it was a great thing with a contemporary atmosphere and downtempo music that looks and sounds fantastic on the big screen. (02/06/2015)

Si la fine supercherie initiale était réservée pour la fin, ce serait une réussite. Mais les scénaristes ont choisi de révéler leurs cartes d’entrée de jeu, laissant Diversion s’éteindre à petit feu, les créateurs n’arrivant pas à surpasser le début. (25/04/2018)

Ensemble, Robbie et Smith assurent plutôt bien. La première partie est particulièment bonne, le meilleur passage étant probablement celui avec l’Asiatique fou. La deuxième moitié retombe dans quelque chose de standard avec une intrigue réchauffée et quelques retournements de situation qui surprennent mais n’impressionnent pas outre mesure. Un bon divertissement pour un dimanche après-midi pluvieux. (03/10/2016)

The first half of the movie, before the whole plot moves three years forward, I quite enjoyed. But then it started to become unbelievably predictable, mainly due to the fact that Will Smith is in it and that it simply cannot experiment with the plot a little. Yes, it's not a typical feel-good movie, but still, his character is cliché, and with it the whole story, which is occasionally enticing, but other times it was painful for me, especially from a screenwriting perspective. (26/06/2015)

A decent cast and an interesting topic, however, the whole thing kind of falls flat. Plus, I don’t know why but I had a feeling that Smith was incredibly annoyed by his comeback and found it irritating just to be on set. Let’s say it’s the fault of completely uninteresting dialogues or an overall bland story, and Smith will hopefully pull himself together before Suicide Squad. (03/07/2015)