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Like the original, CRIMINAL is a sly caper movie that’s also a character study. Richard is an oily, suave swindler. In the first part of the movie, he takes Rodrigo under his wing, showing him how to do bigger cons. A series of amusing plot twists keeps the action moving, yet CRIMINAL doesn’t really rebuke the lying, cheating and stealing in the story. This remake is edited more tightly, but it loses the original’s spontaneity. The older con man still gets his well-deserved comeuppance in the final reel, however.
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(Pa, B, LLL, V, S, A, D, MM) Pagan worldview in story about confidence games, with moral element where one man gets his comeuppance; 60 obscenities including many “f” words, three strong profanities and three light profanities; light violence includes robber holds gun on men, scuffles and men chase thief; man apparently forces sister to fornicate with older man, but no sex scenes shown; no nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, man poses as policeman and cheating, lying and stealing not really rebuked.
GENRE: Drama/Caper Movie
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CRIMINAL is a remake of a 2000 Argentine movie, NINE QUEENS about a day in the life of two con artists.
In the remake, an older con artist in Los Angeles named Richard Gaddis takes under his wing a young Mexican con artist, Rodrigo. After teaching the boy a few of his tricks, Richard gets an urgent call from his sister, Valerie, that one of Richard’s former partners, Ochoa, has gotten ill at the hotel where she works after causing a scene trying to see a VIP guest, William Hannigan. She doesn’t want any con artists lurking around her hotel and asks Richard to help Ochoa leave.
Richard and Rodrigo enter the room where Ochoa is waiting for the paramedics. Ochoa tells them about his scheme to sell Hannigan a counterfeit of a rare 1878 Monroe Silver Certificate. Richard and Rodrigo agree to help Ochoa pass off the counterfeit to Hannigan, who must leave the country by the next morning because his visa has expired. Of course, things don’t go smoothly, and Richard finds himself having to bet all of his savings on the Hannigan fraud. He even has to agree to drop a lawsuit against his sister that’s preventing her and his brother, Michael, from getting any of their dead mother’s money.
Like the original, CRIMINAL is a sly caper movie that’s also a character study. Richard is an oily, suave swindler. In the first part of the movie, he takes the younger Rodrigo under his wing, showing him how to do bigger cons. Rodrigo never fully trusts Richard, however. A series of amusing plot twists keeps the action moving, but CRIMINAL doesn’t really rebuke the lying, cheating and stealing in the story. This remake is edited more tightly, but it loses the original’s spontaneity. The older con man still gets his well-deserved comeuppance in the final reel, however.
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