Pretty Good

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

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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 the worst movies I have seen in a long time. It is mind blowing that a group of talented actors (Alice Eve, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman) can sign up for such a bad project. The directing is bad to very bad. 1/10 is too much but the lowest I can give it.

Great film ignore all these Americans who think fart jokes are funny ! Script was a work of art !

I cannot believe that somebody (or somebodies) allowed the making of this for 13,000,000. They would have been better off to go out into the woods with the money and burn it. There's not a single likable character in the whole film. All of them are what I call "Darwin Award" winners (for service to humanity by removing themselves from it). Unfortunately, none of the main characters gets killed. They just go on with their idiotic behaviour. Is this what the "film" makers are trying to say: That the world is just full of alcoholic, gambling addicted thieves and killers, and we have to get used to it to survive? Even the Catholic Church? In short, neither clever nor funny (okay, one genuinely funny scene with the ring - but highly improbable). And it took 5 (!) production companies to get this mess made. Maybe that's what it was - an elephant designed by a committee that came out an aardvark (with apologies to aardvarks). Too bad there aren't negative ratings here. I expect this to win all sorts of razzies from wherever they give them out.