American Hustle trailer

American Hustle trailer & Review

the 70's, Man!!! Looks interesting and Christian Bale is almost unrecognizable here.

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American Hustle This is the kind of movie which is performance driven, the whole 70's setting, con-men forced to work for the FBI plot is secondary to the characters interrelations. The actors in this film simply are mindboggling great. Previous co-stars Christian Bale & Amy Adams (who worked together in 'The Fighter') and Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence (who starred in 'Silver Linings Playlist') have meatier roles here and truly shine. Cooper not so much since his character was not as developed as the others. Jeremy Renner does a decent job as New Jersey Mayor Carmine piccolo, a decent politician who becomes the target of the FBI agent played by Cooper. Oh and Robert DeNiro return's to form in his brief but scary cameo role as a Mafioso. Bale does a brilliant job putting some weight, nailing a Brooklin accent and using an unconvincing bald/wig toupee. Even though his character is a scoundrel you care for him. But it is Amy Adams the one who steals the movie as Bale's associate & lover. She is smart, she is sexy, she is that character in the flesh. Secondary to Adams, Jennifer Lawrence again delivers a great performance as the loose gun wacko wife of Bale's character. When these two ladies finally have a face off sparkles fly and the atmosphere is electrifying. That scene felt like watching Pacino facing DeNiro for the first time in 'Heat'. Simply special. Except for Cooper, all these actors deserve Academy Award nominations. The movie is okay, the performances are the real jackpot. 8/10

 

Agreed. Decent movie, saved by some great performances. Amy Adams is hot as hell.

 

Yup

 

Saw it last night. Pretty good movie, but nothing epic. I give it about a 7.5/10

Wolf of Wall Street is a far better movie.

 

Very good movie, but I thought it was too long personally. My attention span isn't the greatest, but there are a lot of long movies that seemed to better justify their length.

 

The film got 10 Academy awards nominations including Best Picture. Four of those are for the actors & actresses. I was right in predicting the nominations for Bale, Adams and Lawrence, but took me by surprise Cooper's nomination. If he wasn't acting next to those other three thespians, his performance would have gone totally unnoticed.