“Matchstick Men tells three stories, each one intriguing enough to supply a movie. It is: (1) the story of a crisis in the life of a man crippled by neurotic obsessions; (2) the story of two con men who happen onto a big score, and (3) the story of a man who meets the teenage daughter he never knew he had, and finds himself trying to care for her.
Bien que la scène finale soit bouleversante, le film, en totalité, manque de cohérence et d'épaisseur pour qu'on ressente l'empathie pour ces personnages.