A film is directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman that follows Curator Harry Deane is a specialist in art, but he absolutely finishes his mission assigned from his insane boss. As a result, he takes a plan to play a trick with his boss.
Firth and Diaz, game as they are, look lost and disappointed most of the time during Gambit, as though they pictured themselves making Burn After Reading, and instead found themselves in The Ladykillers.
Even with a script by the Coen brothers, and a classy international cast led by Colin Firth, this contemporary London caper movie falls far short of its potential even as a lightweight comic romp.
When the movie veers away from the verbal gymnastics of a bunch of colorful dopes out-dumbing one another and into overindulged farce, the specificity of the Coens' writing begins to fade.
