Matchstick Men 2003 123movies

Watch: Matchstick Men 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are “water filtration systems,” bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations–which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy’s private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he’s forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter–a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What’s more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela’s appearance disrupts her neurotic father’s carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she’s developing a fascination with Daddy’s questionable career..
Plot: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 132,197
	82% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1438 Popularity: 10.394 | TMDB

Reviews:

Start and end very good
The little problem that ‘Matchstick Men’ has is that there is not a real highpoint in the movie if the ending wasn’t there. I think the movie starts as a very good movie. Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) and Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell) are con artists and the movie opens with showing how they collect some money. It is not as great as how George Clooney does it in ‘Out of Sight’ but it’s a lot of fun. After this the movie shows who Roy is, a guy with all kind of weird things. Spasms, panic attacks, compulsive behavior. He wants things clean, he wants things a certain way, or he becomes a little crazy. He has pills for these things but he loses them and this is how he meets Dr. Klein (Bruce Altman), a psychiatrist.

Because of him Roy learns he has a 14-year old daughter Angela (Alison Lohman, who was actually 24). He wants to care for her, spend time with her, and even reveals what he really is. In a great scene she shows her father and us how she would be if she had the same job as Roy. Roy and Frank have a big job planned where they would collect 80,000 dollars from a guy named Frechette (Bruce McGill). In a way they are taking money but Roy looks at it differently. He thinks, and he is actually right, that they just give it to him. Because it is all illegal they can’t complain after they are cheated.

Hoe these three big stories fit in one you have to see for yourself. The middle part is a little slow, but the ending makes up for that. All characters are played very well and Nicolas Cage is great. Ridley Scott has made another fine movie.

Sustained my interest throughout
Roy (Nicolas Cage) has some problems. He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks, and gets totally hysterical when people leave doors open, don’t take off their shoes, get mud on his carpet, etc. He takes pills for the many problems, but he accidentally knocked them down the garbage disposal and is a big frantic mess now, complete with nervous ticks of the face and exclamations of “mmm…” at the end of his sentences.

That’s a problem that severely interferes with his job as a con artist. He’s not a con man, he’s not a rip-off man, he’s a con artist, with added emphasis on the “artist” part. He views his job as a beauty, a sort of majestic way of expressing himself, but not really, that’s a lie, it’s just something that makes him sleep better at night.

He hates his job because it makes him feel dirty. It’s not fun ripping off old people or fat people, but he is a high school drop out, how else can he get a decent paying job?

His partner, Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), is a bit more at ease than Roy. He doesn’t seem to mind his job all that much. Roy, on the other hand, is turning into a complete nut, and after going to a recommended psychiatrist, he musters up the courage to confront his 14-year-old daughter, Angela (Alison Lohman), who is eager to escape her controlling mother and check out her long-lost big pop.

The film has a lot of different stories going on — the worry-wart who learns to put aside his nervous ticks, the long-lost father who reunites with his daughter, and the con artist who tries to give it up for a normal life. They all succeed as a story, but the film’s only flaw is its wandering, which goes on far too long.

Who cares (and I mean that as a statement, not a question). The film is one of the great entertainments of the year. It has twists, turns, and a big streak of enjoyability running through it.

Nicolas Cage is on a winning streak. First 2002’s Oscar-winning “Adaptation,” now this (rumored to be entered into the Oscar race for 2004). Who would’a thunk it?

Sam Rockwell (“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”) continues to impress, while Alison Lohman (a 20-something actress playing a teenager) shines and convincingly portrays exactly what the character needs.

Ridley Scott (“Alien”), the infamous British director, uses some great camera techniques here — filmed in a blue shade with lots of different camera flashes, he subtly forces the audience into Roy’s head, especially during sequences when Roy is having little breakdowns and the people and objects around him start moving at warp-speed.

I’ll admit that I’m a big fan of con man movies because I find them amusing. But “Matchstick Men” is not really a con man movie — it’s a movie about a con man who has to cope with his job and private life. And a movie about a con man who finds he has a daughter. And a con man who gets conned. It’s all enjoyable, and though the film is long, I never felt very bored by it at all — it sustained my interest throughout its running time. That’s rarer and rarer nowadays.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 62000000
Revenue 65565672
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director Ridley Scott
Writer Eric Garcia, Nicholas Griffin, Ted Griffin
Actors Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman, Sam Rockwell
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length (6 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji)