I like weird little movies. This one is plenty weird but there was just something off about it that prevented me from enjoying it. For a movie about con men, I didn't feel fooled at all.The Bloom brothers, Stephen and Bloom, are great con men. The best in the world. They grew up in a series of foster homes, and learned how to swindle in order to make themselves feel better about never fitting in. Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) was the brains of the operation, the one that came up with the cons, and his younger brother Bloom (Adrian Brody) acted them out. The two stole millions but Bloom grew unsatisfied with the constant lying and quit the team. Stephen ropes him into One Last Job, conning a millionaire shut-in (Rachel Weisz) into a globe-trotting adventure revolving around an 8th Century prayer book. But Bloom starts to wonder who exactly is the mark in this grift, the girl or him.
It was really difficult to determine exactly what timeline the movie was supposed to be set in. All the cars date it to present day but the costumes and the sets seem pulled from the twenties and thirties. For instance, who takes steamer ships to Europe anymore? Not a cruise ship, an actual steamer.
Parts of it were cute but, overall, it just left me a little flat. It reminded me too much of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels but without the charm.
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