This twisting, turning con movie is so pleased with its own cleverness that an audience isn’t even necessary. Nobody could like the film as much as it likes itself. That sense of self-satisfaction considerably dampens whatever genuine pleasures the picture holds, including a flirty pair of performances from Lucy Liu and Josh Hartnett. Hartnett has an agreeable nonchalance as an apparent patsy who finds himself caught between a pair of crime bosses (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman), but everything else smugly overacts – from Bruce Willis as a mystery man to the garish, elaborately patterned wallpaper.
