Smith-Robbie chemistry; music choices; title said in the movie; Will Smith's collared shirts; pharmacy car-crash sequence; non-lethal staged shooting; thief lessons
Most of the music choices are liked, including the opening song, Iggy Pop's Gimme Danger and a White Bird song. — Bill Simmons
The title is said in the movie ('this is a game ... of focus'), which always wins a heart. — Bill Simmons
Will Smith's clothes, especially checkered collared shirts, are elite, though the decade they aim for is hard to place. — Wesley Morris
Smith's S curl hair is a sticking point: sometimes it looks fantastic, sometimes terrible. — Wesley Morris
The hair may be meant to make McRaney plausibly his biological father; the film says he is 'basically my father' and leaves the biology ambiguous. — Wesley Morris
A three-years-later dateline graphic is welcomed by one side, while the other asks why a caper needs a dateline, unlike Siriana or a Bourne movie; the location is corrected from Buenos Aires to New Orleans. — Wesley Morris
The bad guy buying products at the pharmacy for the car accident is a really good sequence. — Wesley Morris
The deliberate non-lethal shooting, aimed between ribs, is hard to pull off but works here, called the best one ever seen. — Bill Simmons
Thief lessons are liked: give stolen cards back within an hour, married guys make the best marks, sell everything, take no chances. — Bill Simmons
A never-pickpocketed participant doubts anyone could take his watch and calls her stealing the Piage watch at the end impossible; the cuts on every move and one visible wrist-wiggle suggest liberties. — Wesley Morris
