Confidence (2003)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Confidence |
| Original title | Confidence |
| Country of production | USA , Canada , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Foley |
| script | Doug Jung |
| production |
Michael Burns Marc Butane Michael Ohoven Michael Paseornek |
| music | Christophe Beck |
| camera | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
| cut | Stuart Levy |
| occupation | |
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Confidence is a thriller directed by James Foley from the year 2003 . Later television broadcasts also took place under the title Confidence - Coup in LA
action
Jake Vig is a cunning con artist who, with his well-rehearsed team - Gordo, Miles and Decoy Big Al, as well as the two corrupt police officers Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano - cheats rich people out of their money. Her latest victim, Lionel Dolby, turns out to be the accountant of the influential gang boss King, who takes the matter very personally. The next day, not only does the accountant's body swim in the river, but Jake Vig and his team find Big Al with a bullet in his head.
Jake offers the gang boss a deal: he'll participate in his latest coup to work off the debt. King agrees and sends his husband Lupus with him. Jake brings the pickpocket Lily on board as a new decoy. Their sacrifice is Kings archrival Morgan Price, head of a bank, which more than a billion dollars annually mafia -money washes . With the help of Lily, they get in touch with Grant Ashby, who works at the bank, and convince him that he will issue them a corporate loan of five million dollars, with a contribution for himself.
At the same time, Special Agent Gunther Butan contacted the two corrupt police officers and blackmailed them with a video. He offers the two of them a deal that they will deliver Jake Vig to him in the act and he will make the video disappear again. But the two are not familiar with Jake's new plan. To get involved, they tell Jake about butane, as suggested by the special agent, and offer him protection. Jake is shocked and wants to cancel the plan. Lily leaves the team disappointed. When Jake goes ahead with the plan, because King is sitting on his neck, Lily gets in touch with bank chief Price and reveals Jake's plan. Price puts Travis on the case.
Gordo flies abroad and withdraws the money from the account there. When Gordo is on the return flight with the money, Jake hires the two police officers as an escort. The policemen go to the airport with butane. King's henchman Lupus wants the money for himself and his boss alone and gets in touch with King. He drives with one of his men to the airport to catch the sports bag with the money. He also succeeds when Gordo visits the toilet shortly after checking out. Butane now follows the bag to King's car and lets the two corrupt police officers strike. But they are not alone, a whole FBI troop who are in possession of the video of Butane arrests the two police officers; also King and his helper when they find illegal drugs in the gym bag .
The real bag with the money was exchanged beforehand by a bribed customs officer . The alleged special agent turns out to be Jake's man and takes the real bag. Price's security guard Travis visits Jake with Lily and shoots Lupus, who is threatening Jake. Jake tells the story to the security guard, but suddenly Lily shoots her former employer. The security guard disappears believing that the federal police have the money. In the end it turns out that Lily is still part of the team and that Jake is not really dead.
background
The film was shot from April to May 23, 2002 in Los Angeles and Ontario , California. The budget was approximately $ 15 million. Revenue in the US was just over $ 12 million. The film premiered on January 20, 2003 at the Sundance Film Festival .
German-language DVDs and the English soundtrack of the film were released.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films praised the film as a “sophisticated thriller with […] black humor”. It is "elegant, relaxed genre cinema in an almost old-fashioned production that shows the desire for filmmaking". Cinema highlighted the “brilliant actors” and said the film was “exciting and clever” so that one could “have a great time”.
Web links
- Confidence in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Confidence inrotten tomatoes(English)
- Official website (requires Flash)
- Film review by OutNow.CH
- Film review from Filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Confidence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 480 K).
- ^ Confidence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de