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Confidence (2003) | User Rating
(71 votes) | Critic Rating
(17 reviews) |
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Directed by
James Foley Written by
Doug Jung Cast
Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Morris Chestnut, Leland Orser, Louis Lombardi [more]
Release Date
• USA: Apr 25, 2003
• UK: 22 Aug 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 16, 2003
• R2: 1 Mar 2004
Budget $15,000,000
Official Website:
Confidence Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, violence and sexuality/nudity.
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA, Canada, Germany
Studio Cinerenta, Cinewhite, Ignite Entertainment, Lions Gate Films
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Confidence
• Confidence: After Dark
• En toute confiance
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Confidence Reviews |
Confidence has a high enough entertainment quotient that it's possible to overlook a great many flaws. This brash production doesn't expect a lot more from its audience than undivided attention. It plays by the genre's rules and toys with the viewer's expectations, but it never does anything truly unexpected or amazing. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
"Confidence" starts out with a lot of energy, but it quickly loses steam as the plot progresses. It opens with a fake murder and a quick explanation of the characters. This is enough to get our attention, but it fails to retain it about midway, when we start losing interest in just about everything. [read review] 6/10
--Scott Spicciati (Movie-Vault.com)
This is one of those rare films in which almost everything works, from the crisp direction and stylish performances to the witty dialogue, masterful story, and, most of all, the treacherous, deceitful, double-crossing characters. These guys really put the con in Confidence. [read review] 
--Blake French (FilmCritic.com)
Beware movies that open with lengthy voice-over narration. Particularly if they star the ever-more-annoying Ed Burns, whose character in the clichéd caper thriller "Confidence" is tediously explaining why his body is lying in a pool of blood. [read review] 
--Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
'Confidence,'' directed in smooth cuts and bright colors by James Foley from a painstakingly idiomatic script by Doug Jung, is so infatuated with the idea of style at the expense of everything else that it manages not to have any of its own. [read review]
--A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
Despite being highly stylized and visually ambitious, there would be some definite merit in holding a gun to Director James Foley's head and demanding what he really wanted to accomplish with the pedestrian crime caper, Confidence. [read review] 
--Lynda Lin (The Movie Insider)
"Confidence" is a flawless exercise about con games, and that is precisely its failing: It is an exercise. It fails to make us care, even a little, about the characters and what happens to them. There is nothing at stake. [read review]
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Jaunty, cocky, smug, clever -- bodacious, even -- this con-man drama with Edward Burns and a loathsomely smarmy Dustin Hoffman cuts quite a swath for most of its running time. It's like David Mamet on growth hormones. [read review]
--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
A good con film, but unfortunately in a world full of great ones. Worth, however, seeing more than once, which cannot be said of a lot of other films. [read review] 7/10
--Anton Bitel (Movie Gazette)
Still, as pulp entertainment, "Confidence" is great fun and Foley's first good movie since the very different "Glengarry Glen Ross." [read review]
--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Enjoyable, if not exactly original film that remains watchable due to some good performances and stylish direction by James Foley. [read review] 
--Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
In this con game, Dustin Hoffman chews gum (and the scenery) and Ed Burns does his regular-guy shtick. Again. And we're the marks. [read review]
--Charles Taylor (Salon)
"Confidence" is a very smart thriller that celebrates the act of lying or, to be more specific, the art of acting. [read review]
--Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
I really enjoyed this movie from start to finish, mostly because of its fun cast and intriguing set-ups. [read review] 7/10
--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Reasonable for what it is, but we’ve seen better executions in quality before [read review] B-
--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
It's Tarantino meets Ocean's Eleven! [read review] 
--Chad Law (MovieWeb)
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