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July 20, 2025 13 mins
Focus is a 2015 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It stars Will Smith as a seasoned con artist who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring grifter, played by Margot Robbie. Rodrigo Santoro, Gerald McRaney, and Adrian Martinez appear in supporting roles. The Title: Focus (2015) Cast: Will Smith as Nicky Spurgeon Margot Robbie as Jess Barrett Rodrigo Santoro as Rafael Garriga Gerald McRaney as Bucky Owens Adrian Martinez as Farhad B. D. Wong as Liyuan Tse Robert Taylor as McEwen Brennan Brown as Horst Griff Furst as Gareth Stephanie Honoré as Janice Dominic Fumusa as Jared Mikulski Juan Minujin as Marcello
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This man is known as Nicki the Sweet. He is
looking for a hotel where he can eat, but they
are all full, and once he finds one, he heads
there and while he is eating, he realizes that this
beautiful girl is being harassed by this man. However, he
does nothing and keeps eating. The girl, seeing that Nicky

(00:20):
was alone, goes over to him, using the excuse that
he was the friend she was waiting for, and once
she gets to him, she introduces herself and they start talking.
After a rather long conversation, Nicki is about to leave. However,
the girl, whose name is Jess by the way, apparently
is staying in one of the hotel rooms, so she

(00:42):
tells them and they both go there, and while they
were getting warmed up, someone who seems to be Jess's
boyfriend shows up. He is quite angry about her infidelity,
so with his gun, he starts threatening Nicki, basically telling
him that he has to give him something in exchange
for not being killed. However, Nicki starts talking to him

(01:05):
and tells them that he already knew what they were
up to. That he knew since the girl was with
the previous man. He even gives them suggestions to look
more professional when stealing, and then he leaves. Apparently the
girl wasn't actually staying overnight at the hotel, because while
she was heading home, she is caught up by Nicki.

(01:25):
He had apparently been following her for four blocks and
she hadn't even noticed. Nicki invites her to have a coffee,
so the girl agrees. Once they get to the place,
they start talking. Nicki tells her that everyone in his
family has been a scammer. His grandfather, his father, and
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He also tells her that his father killed his grandfather,
and this happened while they were doing a job together
because they had been discovered, so they had to activate

(02:09):
the Toledo panic button, which basically consists of shooting your
partner so they won't suspect you, but not just anywhere.
It has to be below the heart in order not
to hit any vital organ. But with his grandfather, the
plan went wrong, so that's why he died. And keep
this in mind because it will be important later. Apparently,

(02:32):
Nicki and his team are going to do a big job,
so the girl is interested in joining him, and she
tells Niki to teach her everything he knows. At first
he didn't want to do it, but in the end
he agrees and does it. Once outside of where they.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Nicki begins to show her everything she has to do
in order not to get caught. Basically, it's about distracting
her victims by touching them on one side while stealing
from them. After teaching her a few more things, Niki leaps.
Next day after meeting with his friend Horts in an
apartment he rented for a job. Nikki is having lunch
had a hotel and Jess shows up at that place.

(03:08):
She had stolen his wallet the day before and knew
he was going to be there, things to a membership card.
She keeps insisting that Nikki let her join the team,
so Nicki puts her to the test. He apparently already
knew she would come back, and we realize that because
he had told Horts. Later, the whole team gets together
and starts stealing from everyone who attended the event. Apparently

(03:30):
everyone there is wealthy, so using signals and shadows, they
begin to rob everyone. Jess has a great talent for
stealing from people, and nick notices it. After that, they
hit to the airport since many people have arrived. Suddenly,
Nicki starts arguing with Jess this is all part of
a plan to steal from the people there. Nicki begins
to explain to Jess, who by the way, is already

(03:52):
part of the team, that there are many ways to
steal without people noticing, but we won't go into detail here.
While cloning someone's card, we meet eat Farhat. He is
a very good friend of Niki and an expert in cybersecurity,
so systems are his specialty. After introducing him to Jess,
they head to the apartment Horts had rented. The whole
team is there selling the stolen goods online, and one

(04:14):
of the stolen items is this necklace. Jess was fascinated
by it, but she can't keep it for herself because
it is meant to be sold. After giving Jess her
new identity, Niki offers to take her to the hotel
where she will be staying, but then he changes his
mind and doesn't. However, when she is already at that place,
Niki shows up there and it can be said they
end up together. The next day, while Jess is eating

(04:37):
with Farhat, they are talking about Niki, and Farhat has
a seizure, so people get distracted and they start stealing
from them. All of that was staged. Later that night,
they are celebrating because the profits were over a million dollars,
so they break their previous record themselves, and after the
celebration they give all the money to Nicki and he
apparently is a gambling addict, so they warn him not

(04:58):
to bet it and he promises he won't. The next day,
Nicky takes Jest to the football game, and since she
was already bored, they start betting, and while they're at it,
this man arrives who also wants to bet. At first,
Nicky was winning, but the man doubles the bet and
Nicki loses, so Nicki doubles it back and loses again.
Now he bets one hundred thousand dollars. Since that's a

(05:19):
lot of money.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
The man takes into a suite and guess what, he
also loses the one hundred thousand dollars there, since he
was down more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Nicky
decides to bet all the money he had, which was
more than a million dollars, so the man agrees. However,
Jess is pretty angry about it because Nicki was going
to bet everyone's money, including hers. After that, Nicky loses

(05:40):
the bet again in a card game, so while he
was walking away, he turns back and doubles it again.
This time, he tells the man to look through the
binoculars at the jersey number of any player and that
the girl will guess it. So the man agrees. Once
the man has the number, Jess didn't want to look
through the binoculars, however, Nicky convinces her to do it.
While she's looking through them, Jess realizes that Farhat is

(06:03):
on the field, so she says his number, and it
turns out that was it, so Nicki wins all the money,
and after that, Nicki takes it and they leave the place.
While they're in a limousine, Nicki tells Jess that everything
was under control, that everything had been premeditated, and this
was because the man had been seeing the number fifty
five everywhere and they had done it on purpose. Even
the song he was listening to while looking through the

(06:24):
binoculars said the number fifty five in his native language,
so he didn't even realize it and that's why he
subconsciously chose that number. After telling all that to Jess,
Nicki gives her share and gets out of the vehicle
to get into another one, leaving her quite devastated.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
He apparently did too, but later on they will find
out why he did it. After that, three years pass
and now Nicki is at the Formula one races in
Buenos Aires. He is about to work for this man
known as Giga. He is the owner of one of
the competing teams and has an algorithm that makes the

(07:02):
vehicles even faster. This algorithm will guarantee him victory. However,
he is not sure as there is a team that
is right on his heels, so he tells Nicki that
he wants him to sell another algorithm to that team
so they think it's the original one and thus he

(07:22):
can win without complications. So Nicki at the party that night,
will pretend to be an engineer from his team, and
drunk will start to reproach him, and this is so
that the other teams can see it. Once night falls,
Nicki begins to carry out the plan. He starts drinking

(07:44):
water to pretend he's drunk, and that's how he begins
to speak badly about his boss Gariga, when he was
already heading toward him so that everyone could see it.
Jess comes down the stairs, so Nicky freezes and the
plan falls apart. After that, Jess tells Nicky that she

(08:05):
is in a relationship with Gariga, so he gets pretty upset.
That's why he starts drinking, and this time it seems
to be for real. While he is drinking, Garriga's bodyguard
shows up at the place and threatens Nicki for not
having carried out the plan. So after finishing his drink,
Nicki goes to Gariga and continues with the plan again,

(08:27):
so he hits him. Everyone there sees it, so it
can be said the plan went perfectly. While he's being
taken out of the hotel, this man arrives. He is
the bodyguard of the man they want to sell the
fake software too, so he gives him a card so
he can talk directly to his boss since he sent him.

(08:49):
After seeing that argument. The next day, he meets with
the man to whom he will sell the algorithm. While
they are talking, Nicki realizes that Jess was with Garriga,
so he hurries the deal and asks for three million
euros in exchange for the software. But before giving him
the money, the man asks for proof, and Nicki promises

(09:13):
to give it to him, so after that he goes
out to look for Jess.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
She was at the.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Hotel bar and that's where Nicki arrives. After what he
did to her, she no longer believes anything he says,
so she asks him to stay away from her since
her boyfriend Garriga might notice and could kill them. The
next day, after testing the software and seeing that it
supposedly worked, Nicki arranges for Jess to come to where
he was since she was pretending to return a purse

(09:40):
to an old lady who had dropped it. But all
of that was a setup by Nicki, so she arrives
at that place and they start talking. In this conversation,
he basically tells her to run away from Gariga because
he is a very bad man. Jess says that she
would run away with him, but then we realize that
she was only playing and she leaves. The next day,

(10:01):
nick goes to the airport to pick up his friend Farahat,
who has just arrived, and after picking him up, he
takes him to a place where Jess was in order
to help him win her back, since they had had
a very good friendship when Nicki had introduced them. Once
he arrives where she was, they start talking. Nicki is
basically trying to convince her that she had changed, but

(10:22):
even so, she still doesn't believe him and leaves, and
while she was leaving that place, a vehicle approaches her
and they take her. After that, Nicki heads to his apartment,
looking quite downcast since Jess no longer pays attention to him.
But while he's heading to his apartment, he realizes Jess
was outside his room and apparently she had been beaten,

(10:44):
but she doesn't want to talk about it, and after
a very long night, we arrive at the next day.
At the door of that room is Griga's bodyguard, so
he calls nick and while nick opens the door, Jess hides.
He apparently suspects something, so he enters and starts looking
for her, but Jess manages to slip away and finally escapes,

(11:06):
and since he didn't find anything, the man gives Nicki
a box and leaves. So after that, Nicki starts selling
the algorithm, not only to the man from the beginning,
but to all the teams, so you could say he
makes a lot of money. When he already had all
the money and was about to run away, he gets
a message saying that he had been discovered, so he
has to escape, but he stays waiting for Jess. After that,

(11:28):
several hours go by and Jess doesn't show up, so
he intended to leave, and when he opens the door,
he realizes that Jess was behind it, so they both
start to run away. While they were standing at a
traffic light, they are hit by a truck in It
was the bodyguard of the first man to whom they
had sold the algorithm. He apparently was a mole working
for Gariga, so he takes them while he had both

(11:49):
him and Jess gag Griga threatens to kill her, and
that is if he doesn't tell him who gave him
the password to access the server, since apparently the software
he sold was indeed the original, and as I said,
he didn't just sell it to one team, but he
sold it to all of them. At first, Nicki tells
him that he hacked his account, but that was impossible,
and Griga himself tells him that. Then Nicki tells him

(12:09):
it was the necklace he gave Jess, since supposedly it
had a system that when she entered the room with Griga,
it would capture the passwords.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
But he also.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Denies that since he had never had anything with Jess
and she had never gone up to his room, and
earlier she had told Nicki they were a couple just
to make him jealous. So for that reason, Nicki gets
ready to tell the truth, but when he starts to speak,
Griga's bodyguard shoots him, so he dies, or at least
that's what I thought.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Gariga tells his bodyguard that he was the one who
caused that, so he has to clean it up and leaves.
So the bodyguard is left alone with Jess and Niki's
body and when he was approaching him after looking for
some things, Jess attacks him. However, he apparently is with Niki,
so he starts helping him. And if you've been paying
attention to the summary, you should know what it's called
when a partner shoots the other, and that's in order

(12:57):
not to be discovered. Apparently that man is Nicki father
and he's working with him, so he was the one
who gave him the server password, and he was the
one who sent the message that they had been found out,
So now everything makes sense. After reviving Nicki with duct
tape and an extractor, they take him to a hospital
and here the man begins to explain why he had
abandoned him before, or rather when he was a child,

(13:19):
and it's because Nicki wasn't cut out for the job
of being a thief, since he was too good, and
for that reason he could lose his life. So for
that reason, he also abandoned Jess, and this was because
he was in love with her, and as they say,
the one who falls in love loses, so that's why
he abandoned her. Before the man takes all the money
and leaves Jess along with Mickey outside the hospital, so

(13:40):
Jess helps Nicki get in, and that's how this movie ends.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
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