Focus

Nicky (Will Smith) is a con artist who specializes in low level scams. The secret to success: volume. He and his team lift, steal and plunder, making a comfortable living in the process. But Nicky’s focus is affected when he meets up with Jess (Margot Robbie), a wannabe pickpocket who wants to learn all Nicky can teach her. It looks like a match made in heaven as long as Nicky can keep his number one rule: Don’t let your emotions get involved.

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There is lots of implied sensuality in Focus that ClearPlay deftly excises. About 170 instances of language are also cut, nearly 80 of them the F-word. While there isn’t a lot of violence in Focus, the few instances are pretty graphic, and ClearPlay trims those as well. But though the movie stresses the honor among thieves, at the bottom of it, it’s still a movie about reprehensible people doing things normal folk don’t approve of. Shield the impressionable minds and save the movie for older teens.

Will Focus help me see the good more clearly?...

Focus is kind of like the hot kids in high school, pleasant to look at but not much there when you get to know them. The movie certainly has its moments, some of the banter is appealing, and there are the obligatory twists and turns that go with the genre, but it’s not enough to get us fully invested and care about the characters. A break in continuity of three years in the middle of the movie doesn’t help to keep things together.

Marty Nabhan, ClearPlay Flimflam Man

Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence; 105 mins; Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa