The Brothers Bloom

Well what a disappointment. A story cooked up by a self-involved, arrogant "auteur" who thinks he is just sooo smart and sophisticated. Everything about it is phony, no character looks like a real person, especially the females. No person like the Raquel Weisz character ever existed or will exist, so what is the point??? The story is completely unrealistic and makes no sense. The least of all I was impressed when the director cheated us into thinking the Weisz character lived in New Jersey and that the castle was in America, when it was clear it was all shot in central Europe. They are supposed to be phenomenal con-men yet their final trick is exactly like the trick they do in the beginning. Even the naive Weisz character can see through it. The story in Prague is ridiculous and then there is this stupid, impossible car crash which they all survive untouched. The movie is a total mess, it is not good as a criminal story, not good as a heist movie, not good as a thriller, as a love story maybe not that bad but too unrealistic to care about the characters. Strange that Hollywood gave funds for a fancy, senseless mess like this.