Focus Review: 8 Reasons Will Smith's New Movie Is A Con

4. A Bizarrely Out Of Touch Attempt To Make Will Smith Young

Early on in the film, Nicky comments that he's been in the con game a long time, making it look like Will Smith has accepted that he is no longer the young up-and-comer from Independence Day and Men In Black anymore, but a maturing middle-aged man. The film keeps up that pretence for about an hour, until it gives up and instead follows in the footsteps of the rest of the actor's filmography and tries to reaffirm Smith as part of the rebellious youth. Goon (hired goon) Owens turns up as Nicky's flat and starts whinging about the younger generation - an overt use of sarcasm, lie ins on a Sunday and the habit of posting your every meal on Twitter are all in the poorly aimed firing line. Ignoring that that Tweet criticism is already pretty dated (if you're into sharing food it's all about Instagram), this whole scene makes no sense because none of the complaints apply to the movie's star. Will Smith is forty-six. He's not in the younger generation (if he was he'd immediately see through Jaden's lack of star power). In fact, someone of his age is more likely to be the one making these baseless complaints - he doesn't have Twitter, after all. The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air finished almost twenty years ago, and it's time Hollywood stopped pretending otherwise, particularly if they're going to be audacious enough to act like Smith's a seasoned vet at the same time.