Lonnegan found out he had been conned!!??

The Sting II was awful any way you look at it. Mac Davis should stick only to singing--watching him try to act was tortuous! Teri Garr was an annoyance from start to finish. The entire plot lacked everything on which the original thrived. Clearly David Ward had exhausted all his writing talent by the time he went to work on this script--and any future script to date.

But what ruined it the most for me was the fact that Doyle Lonnegan, played to the hilt by Robert Shaw in the original, supposedly got privy to the fact that he had been conned by Gondorff and Hooker and wanted revenge--by playing a con on them (??). It was well established in the original that one of the main goals of the con was to make sure that the mark (Lonnegan) NEVER find out that he had been conned. An elaborate plan was executed to make sure this was possible. And furthermore, the Lonnegan character in the original would have handed the two con men their heads had he found out about the con. He obviously knew where to find them, since he plotted to con them in the sequel, but it makes no sense whatsoever that he wouldn't simply kill them. Robert Shaw was probably rolling over in his grave during every screening of this disastrous film.


He who conquers himself is mightier than he who conquers a city.