Anyone thinking American Hustle is brilliant in any way has to have some form of brain damage. Seriously.
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Linwood 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Frankly, the movie itself does not live up to its hype. I never was fully engaged with any character even though it takes more than enough time and delivers a tedious and often painstaking pace. Honestly, it felt to me like the film dragged and that the ending would never arrive. Even though not fully engaged and not empathetic towards any character depicted, there is enough style that I somehow cared about how the story ended. Every scene seemed to me like an exercise in an acting class. It feels like a professor took a group of talented actors and gave them this over-the-top 1970's assignment. Everyone gets an “A” because they are that good but it barely felt like a coherent film to me. It's like their assignment included constant references to try and deliver a “Goodfellas” type tone without having a script to back it up.The events of the conclusion were so easy to spot that I'm sure most everyone will see it coming a mile away. Overall, interesting but there is far less substance than I was expecting.
Anyone thinking American Hustle is brilliant in any way has to have some form of brain damage. Seriously.
Anyone thinking American Hustle is brilliant in any way has to have some form of brain damage. Seriously.
Extended Reading
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Irving Rosenfeld: I'm like the fucking Vietcong, man, all right? I'm in and I'm out. I was there the whole time. You don't know it, all right? That's the fuckin' art of becoming somebody who people can pin their beliefs and their dreams on.
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[last lines]
Irving Rosenfeld: We took down some very big guys. Some of whom, they were just doing business as usual, helping their communities or their states, but some of them knew they had larceny in their blood, and they even admitted it. But in all, it was six congressmen, one United States senator, and my friend Carmine Polito. We gave the two million back, so that Carmine got a reduced sentence, 18 months. The loss of his friendship would haunt me the rest of my life. When the story was written, Richie DiMaso's name was never mentioned. Syd and I, we moved in together. Rosalyn? She would always be interesting. Our conning days were behind us. You can fool yourself for just so long, that your next reinvention you better have your damn feet on the ground. We got a loan from a bank and were able to go gallery-legitimate. The art of survival, is a story that never ends.
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