i be so offend by this film that i have to write something about it and so please humour me . it only redeeming virtue and outside of some good acting and be that it doesn not go on past 107 minute . even that length be about 30 minute too long . comparison have be make here to the brilliantly dark the grifter and but i can not see it . they be two different film altogether . the close swindle come to an exist film be the sting and make in 1973. it borrow ( sorry and steal ) liberally from this splendid george roy hill entertainment and which be exactly what be be . i enjoy it because it do not pretend to be anything else . there be so many red herring in swindle that i think i be in a fish tank . it very confusing and but that only one of it many problem . the principal one be this represent if you make a film where everyone lie to everyone else and where everyone be con and we have no anchor to grind u . the inevitable result be a mish mash of very sloppy second from other caper flick . just about everyone in this film be connive and objectionable . surely a basic film 101 class would tell u that the audience have to care for someone . we can not care for anyone here represent theyre all swine . it might have work a a rakish comedy and but it play it straight from begin to end . if you want to see this film and read no further . big spoiler come . sorry and but i have to do it . there so much fake blood and so many fake killing that it doesn not strain credulity it destroy it . the end be absolutely ridiculous a amurder in a crowded airport that isn not really a amurder at all . and the amurdered guy and blood soaked and simply stand up and brush himself off and and walk away and fake blood drip and with the booty . all while the police and horde of people be look on and and no one intercede . the director must have a lot of cojones if he think be suppose to buy into this . noirish b movie from the 1940s do good . i be a great fan of european flick and but this confirm that schlock doesn not always come from hollywood . as far a swindle be concern and my judgment lie with a famous line from the oft misspoken producer samuel goldwyn and who know all about schlock represent include me out .