This is a remake of the Argentinian con-game movie Nine Queens (which I watched a few weeks back) and the only reason to watch this one instead of the original is if you have a pathological aversion to subtitles.
John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, and a very badly miscast Maggie Gyllenhaal star in this version, which is very faithful to the plot of the original. To be sure, when a movie's as tightly plotted as Nine Queens is, you really can't change much. But Reilly and Luna don't have nearly the charm or the chemistry of Gastón Pauls and Ricardo Darín in the original, and the ending -- one of the places where the plot did have to be a changed a bit -- isn't as clear as it needs to be (someone gets arrested, but we're never really told why).
Skip this one, and rent Nine Queens instead.
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