Film Review – The Con is On

I suppose the idea of “The Con is On” is to resemble retro entertainment, recalling a time, around the late 1960s, when filmmakers were chasing every whim, slapping controlled chaos on the screen to create a perfect cocktail hour mood for intended shenanigans. It’s meant to be a criminal caper of sorts, but the clockwork nature of organized theft is suffocated under layers of terrible screenwriting, unleashed performances, and a weird vision from director James Oakley, who seems to think audiences will want to endure double-crosses and near-misses performed by a set of characters in various stages of addiction. “The Con is On” (which was shot three years ago) means to be edgy and cheeky, yet it’s always struggling for oxygen, with Oakley stuck trying to create something appealing when every person onscreen deserves to be pushed into the nearest river.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com