Wow! Such a good movie.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Ahh, British Comedy, it is in a category of its own and generally always gives what it promises. As you can tell, I liked this movie for its clever wit and simple intelligence of the main characters and the cunning schemes that they pulled. As Baldrik would say in Black Adder, I have a cunning plan. And their plans were very cunning, very clever, and quite amusing at that.Shooting Fish is about a couple of orphans, one from New York and one from England. The one from New York was a con-man who was very clever at getting money. At the age of 8 he was caught by the IRS putting money into a bank account in the Chase-Manhattan Bank. The question was, what was he doing with a bank account. The other, Jeremy, is an electronic genius and when both of them get together they are able to fleece money out of everybody.The movie opens with a little scheme where they are demonstrating a talking computer to a lot of businessmen and manage to gain lots of money off of them. The girl that they hired, a medical student, is a but suspicious but they convince her that it is all very Robin Hood - steal from the rich and give to the poor. The thing they don't tell her is that they are the poor that they give to. After they finish this scheme, they catch thieves breaking into their car and stealing a computer. At first I thought they were simple thieves, but when we visit their house and see that it is extremely opulent, I realised that they were in fact industrial spies.They live in a huge water tower in what is a home of clever gadgets and secret rooms. They are trying to save up two million dollars to buy a mansion and they salvage anything to use in their schemes to make money. Some of them are for ten thousand at a time, while others are simply fifty pound jobs where they move insulation from one house to another. It is interesting that during the insulation scam, they leave the poorer lady alone while they fleece the richer ones.Shooting Fish is a great little movie. It is not one of deep themes, it is a simple enjoyable movie where those cast out of society take back what was theirs in clever little schemes, and even though they spend a few months in gaol, it does have a happy ending. The thing I really liked is that the judge was dressed in purple. That simply shows me that they bothered to research the English courts and do a decent job at it. This movie is cool.

I think I have to stop watching English movies. Apart from the James Bond-movies and a small number of comedies, they are usually pure crap. This movie is definitely one of those. The first ten minutes starts out OK, and the movie has potential at this time. Sadly, it doesn't continue in this style at all. The story is about two swindlers who tries to earn a lot of money by tricking people in different ways. None of the ways they do this are funny at all. It's supposed to be a comedy, but personally I didn't laugh one single time during the movie. In addition, the story really sucks, especially because they threw a bit of romance on top of it. Alos, the ending is very bad, and it was just what I had expected because movies like this leave you with no surprises. If you want to see a movie about swindlers, watch "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" instead.

This movie by Stefan Schwartz (co-written with Richard Holmes) thinks it is cleverer than it actually is, and comes out as an odd hybrid of crime caper and romance.Two conmen - the charmless Dan Futterman as American Dylan, and geeky Stuart Townsend as Jez - have long-standing dreams of making lots of cash by any means to fund their very own stately home. Posh totty Kate Beckinsale as Georgie (a doctor-in-training with secretarial skills) joins them as the beauty and brains of the team and causes havoc between them.Involved in this semi-engaging brew are voice recognition computer systems, cremation, loft insulation, blow-up dolls, light sabres, a tatty old racehorse, £50 bills, and the music of Burt Bacharach. Glimpsed in the cast are Phyllis Logan, Annette Crosbie, Peter Capaldi, Jane Lapotaire, Nickolas Grace, Nicholas Woodeson, and (in a small but wickedly funny role as Georgie's boyfriend) Dominic Mafham.'Shooting Fish' is fairly enjoyable but tends to shoot itself down quite early on, without much chance of recovering. Does it know what it is supposed to be? An idea with potential and some laughs, but this movie doesn't know which way to jump.

If this quirky British comedy could be summed up in a word, that word would be "charming".The story is a simple, low-budget British one: two orphans scam as many people as they can for as much money as they can in an effort to buy the stately home they always dreamed of as children.Everything is going swimmingly, until they join forces with a typist, Georgie (the perfect Kate Beckinsale), and the plot leads on from there...The acting is perfect for the film, neither overstated nor low key, and suits the plot and style very well. The direction is quirky, but makes no new ground, and also fits the script to a tee.This film would be great viewing for a date (perhaps not for a lads night in), and has the simple comedy you might expect from such classic British TV series as "Only Fools and Horses", or "Last of the Summer Wine".It doesn't require much brain power, but is one of the best homegrown (British) comedies of recent(ish) years.