A couple flees to LA to steal a jewel from Peter's ex-wife to repay their debt to a gangster.
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A con-artist couple is cooking up a jewel-theft scam in LA to pay off sexy gangster Irina. Having squandered Irina’s loot one drunken night, Harriet and Peter Fox escape to Hollywood, where they plot to steal a priceless jewel from Peter’s loopy ex-wife to repay the debt.
"Despite having names like Tim Roth, Uma Thurman and Stephen Fry, the feature film 'The Con Is On' is just another heist movie, without any big surprises, just to pass the time. After all, from a contained direction by James Oakley ('The Devil You Know'), we follow the story of a couple who, fleeing from a mobster collecting debts, decide to flee to Los Angeles to rob a jewelry store. Roth, Thurman and Fry are on autopilot, without any surprises in their performance. In addition, for specialized critics, it was one of the worst films of 2018 in the United States, due to the uninspiring plot and, at some moments, even senseless. In the end, it serves as escapist entertainment, to let it roll on the TV screen while popping the popcorn."