Does Nicky Die in Focus?

Nicky appears to bleed out as Jess cries and tells him she loves him. It looks like Nicky dies until Owens says he shot Nicky in the right spot to avoid any major arteries, although he did puncture his lung. Owens gets the blood out of Nicky's lung, reviving him.

Is Focus a true story?

The new film, set for release on Feb. 27, tells the story Nicky Spurgeon, a con artist whose romantic entanglement with fellow criminal Jess Barrett complicates one of his biggest schemes to date. ... Though the story of Focus isn't based on true events, con artists do use many of the same tricks that the trailer depicts.

What happened in the film Focus?

Nicky is a con artist whose role is decieving people for a living but when he meets a young aspiring con artist named Jesse and takes her under his wing he discovers he let her in on so many levels and decides to let her go. When they meet again 3 years later he does everything he can to win her back.