Gambit

Starring: Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman
Director: Michael Hoffman
Rating: ●●○○○ - Disappointing

I am a big fan of the Coen brothers, so I could not miss Gambit, presented as the new movie by the Coen brothers.
Gambit is a remake of the movie from the 60s staring Michael Caine, in the role now played by Colin Firth.
The story , without spoiling it too much, is about trying to sell a fake Monet instead of an authentic one.
Well, selling a fake for the original works also for the movie itself in the sense that this is not really a movie from the Coen brothers, as I realised looking at the credits at the beginning of the movie.
The Coen brothers have been involved only in re-writing the original script. This explains why there is so few here that would resemble the comic surrealism of the Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading or Arizona Junior.
Gambit ends up being a vintage type of comedy with the result that would have been funny in the 60s but it looks fairly pointless now days.
But ending on a positive note, the interpretation of Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci (small part as a German art critic) is really good.