Joel and Ethan Coen didn’t direct Gambit, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so, since this new trailer relies so heavily on those good ol’ Coen tropes: wacky dialects and hare-brained crime plots. Instead, the Coens only scripted this remake of the 1966 Michael Caine–Shirley MacLaine comedy, which now casts Colin Firth as a man who’s hoping to con his boss (Alan Rickman) with the help of a conniving cowgirl (Cameron Diaz). What ensues is something that looks like a high-energy Coen comedy in the Intolerable Cruelty mode, but it’s actually directed by Michael Hoffman. Hopefully, it’s closer to his Soapdish than it is to the turgid The Last Station.
