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Nicolas Cage breaks out the jumbo-sized box of twitches, tics, and barks as Roy, an obsessive-compulsive-phobic-manic-whatever master con man--a "matchstick man," if you will--content to run short games and stack up a nice nest egg persuading people to give him their money. Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) is his hungry partner Frank, and Alison Lohman (White Oleander) is Angela, the dysfunctional teenage daughter who comes into Roy's life so we can have a movie, right? It's a Ridley Scott joint (Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down), so you're getting some top-drawer photography and some Frank Sinatra music, but at 118 minutes it's a little long, and if you can't see the ending coming, you are a confidence man's dream.