Matchstick Men
Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
22 June 1948, Colorado, USA
16 March 1948, New York City, New York, USA
9 October 1961, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
14 May 1948, Dayton, Ohio, USA
19 January 1975
18 September 1979, Palm Springs, California, USA
21 October 1960, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
11 July 1950, San Antonio, Texas, USA
10 September 1955, San Jose, Costa Rica
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
24 February 1942, Sonora, California, USA
December 26, 2010
This is a movie about con games at every level.
October 18, 2008
A cleverly planned switcheroo story in which the twist at the end is the knife in the back.
September 26, 2003
A thoroughly absorbing hour and 56 minutes of entertainment.
December 06, 2005
Matchstick Men works because of the way the key players handle the material. This is the work of professionals acknowledging a good story and knowing better than to get in the way.
September 15, 2003
It's a blah little exploitation picture that thinks it's a deep humanist parable.
June 24, 2006
Ridley Scott lets us enjoy the satisfying clicks and whirrs of the well-oiled celluloid con trick, while leaving plenty of head room for Cage to twitch and fret in.
September 13, 2003
Matchstick Men isn't even remotely intricate; it's not even particularly interesting.
September 16, 2003
Matchstick Men is really two movies brilliantly spliced into one, each enriching the other.
June 12, 2009
Nicholas Cage gives his best performance since "Leaving Los Vegas" as con man Roy Waller in this sophisticated movie about familial responsibility, self-imposed barriers and the possibilities of a well executed long con.
December 06, 2005
Something less than the sum of its parts, Matchstick Men is a decent film that should have been a considerably better one.
July 07, 2008
Matchstick Men never really casts off its cloak of artificiality and calculation; its pleasures are minor, however distracting they may be.
December 30, 2006
Scott tucks away his visual athletics in favour of something leisurely and quietly devastating. It's ultimately far more cunning a script than we can reveal here.
