Boring

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Fantastic film! Enjoyed this movie thoroughly from start to finish!It's fun to watch and this group of very talented actors (Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence) are all on top of their game.American Hustle amuses with irony, music and wit. It's a very enjoyable film and a lot of fun to watch!!!

The mesmerising Christian Bale, as always, gives his very best to his role. The talented Amy Adams also does her best with a limited role. But I continue to be disappointed by the new breed of Hollywood "A-listers" including the congenitally awful Lawrence and one dimensional Cooper. Why do these two keep being cast in films? Why do they have fans? Lawrence in this role feels like a student hamming it up (badly) in a school play and, as usual, almost ruins the film for me. Cooper adds nothing but irritation and the occasional cringe. The film had potential but it needed a better cast of actors to bring the film to a higher level.

This was a self important bore fest. The plot was boring. The music and glitzy camera work tried to make it seem important, but putting a silk hat on a pig still makes it a pig. The standout performance was Michael Pena who is usually great in everything and Amy Adams who is probably the best American actress working today. Jennifer Lawrence looked like she was spending more energy in angling for the soap opera limelight than actually focusing on her character and Bale looked as bored as I felt watching this drivel. All of the characters were irredeemable. I didn't want them to succeed, I wanted to see them fail. It was just so contrived and half-baked. There are far better films worth your time.

Real facts stories always have attracted filmmakers. Historic tales offer some feeling of truth to the cinema stories. Always will be controversy among moviegoers about fidelity and treason to the historical truth. Whenever a historical person o era is portraits somebody will question the fidelity to the facts. Warren Beatty was probably aware of this and populated REDS with interviews to a gallery of real people, as they were at the real time of the movie-making. They were present, somehow, during the life of John Reed. They commented about those times with their own thoughts. Watergate turned to be a wonderful thriller about the work of two journalists and not about Nixon. Both journalists were credited with William Goldman as responsible by the script. Serious, committed filmmakers have realized good movies out of historic events and moviegoers have shown to be attracted by them. Actual facts give a structural base to the script, a generating point from where it could come up an interesting, brilliant movie. Now the important thing in this genre is to deeply develop such factual themes and relate them to the movie story, which by now will probably become tinted with the filmmaker's ideas. American hustle has been successful in processing the material of a once newsworthy event from late 70,s early 80, which now is not totally installed in the country's collective memory. The real Abscam was in itself an official cover operation and its planning notes could have been the synopsis of a B-spy movie. American hustle used the blueprint of the scam as the movie line and from it created a cast of characters and sub-plots very complex, rare and chaotic converted into a web frame from where develops a story that is credible thanks to the intelligent construction of scenes with characters moving and talking organically and in unison with the screwball spirit of the story. Apparently there was a real Irving (Bale character) and a real mayor Polito (Renner character) who were functional to the factual story both with personal traits and history to nurture these great actors' work but the final product was the task of profoundly creative study of characters and its integration to the story. Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams are extremely accurate in their roles. Bradley Cooper had a great composition of a FBI agent unlike to most typical portraits of Intel agents. He is success- hungry, probably to vindicate his own history as a person and have not scruples and little dignity in achieving the goals he is setting for him and the operation. At one point early in the movie we have forgotten the actual history and we are immersed into a movie rich in textured characters and attracting script with an organic discourse of tension and fear, going much faster and complicated than the characters and spectators have asked for. The film's look expresses with precision an era and an event that it is not to far removed in time. David O. Russell was able to organize a chaotic storytelling by keeping a consistent atmosphere directing a cast of odd characters in a space that is dangerously edgy. As moviegoers we sense the climate and fell the uncertainty of the unknown next step. American hustle is a film that proposed an unusual historic thriller and it was accomplished.