The Brothers Bloom User Reviews

The film had enormous potential, but comes across too forced and contrived. On the one hand, we're led into a fanciful world of hard-to-believe characters while at the same time encouraged to follow along on these brothers' "cons." While the cons themselves display apparent brilliant and costly planning and execution, their whole purpose seems almost pointless when the "victim" of the con doesn't really care one way or another whether she's being conned. Even after the learns this, she doesn't care to even ask about her money, much less think twice about running back again to her primary con man. That one of the brothers makes the fatal mistake of collaborating with a villain whom both brother's passionately hate (and just days after he slices same villain with a knife), just doesn't gibe with the older brother's sensibility and sophistication in these cons. In the end, while the twist caught me by surprise, the overall result was disappointing and leaving me with more questions than answers.

05/17/2009, 4:32 am