“Focus” passes the eyes and ears tests for being a well-made movie.

The filmmakers certainly cast beautiful people, put them in beautiful locations and used expensive cameras to show them doing things that might seem interesting in a trailer.

However, I’m skeptical that it was made with pure intentions. It is so entirely devoid of emotional attachment and substance that I would believe it was made as a shell for tax write-offs, or something.

Will Smith is a suave, professional thief and Margot Robbie wants to be one. For most of the film, that’s the entire story you get.

“Focus” is a series of loosely connected scenes in which things technically happen, but it sure doesn’t feel like any of it means anything. The small handful of actual story beats is trite beyond belief.

Our two incredibly attractive leads fall in love, because of course they do. However, the man who leads a life of crime doesn’t want to get emotionally attached, because of course he doesn’t.

After a big job at the Not Super Bowl (with fake teams, but real Bud Light product placement), he emotionally manipulates her and leaves her behind, because of course he does, and he comes to regret this years later and tries to win her back, because of course he does.

Honestly, for its first 90 minutes or so, “Focus” is empty, but inoffensive. It’s only in the last half hour that it truly becomes loathsome.

In that short amount of time, the film pulls the rug out from under the audience about half a dozen times with nonsensical, unearned plot twists and wildly erratic shifts in tone.

Smith gives a resoundingly awful speech about how easy it is to manipulate women before it is revealed that everyone has been swindling everyone else this whole time and nothing is what it seems.

There’s a garbage story thread about a rich guy who owns an auto racing team or something that merely exists to set all of this up, but finding out that all of these professional liars were lying the whole time isn’t an especially fulfilling conclusion.

If you really want to see “Focus” for whatever reason, maybe you shouldn’t read this last part because it contains a pretty major spoiler.

OK, here it is:

At the end of “Focus,” you find out you’ve been conned into watching a movie that is neither as cool nor as clever as it thinks it is, and you feel like you’ve wasted precious time and money you will never get back.