American Hustle

Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper,Jeremy Renner,Jennifer Lawrence

Director: David O. Russell 

Genre: Crime, Drama

Worth a nomination to the Oscars. A must watch!

You may look forward to:

• A movie worth watching for the performers. Its always good to see some super heroes beyond their super hero image.And Christian Bale gives you an amazing performance, every inch deserving tons of appreciation. Nothing about style, just the character that he is, nothing overdone, just the right dosage to the audience
• Amy Adams, in a major role. This ones gotto be the best break in her career. She performs flawlessly. The many pros and cons being hot, intelligent and single. You dont get it all, though the movie ends on a positive note, far from reality :)
• Bradley Cooper, this guy is so much more than 'Hangover' shit. He has proved it by now time and again. He comfortably hides his good looks behind those bushy beard and focuses only on the performance, and play a role worth all the appreciations. My heart cried for him by the climax, yet all thumbs up :)
• Jennifer Lawrence, very unusually short role :) She is a good actor, she knows how to irritate you :D Beautiful maiden and a gorgeous one. Never saw her in such a typical girly avatar before, it took me sometime to gasp its actually her :)
• Jeremy Renner, Ohh my what a transformation :) He looks so hot otherwise :D He was more of played high society pivot here. Him more than an action hero, clearly wins you heart
• The script is very well crafted, keeps you engaged through the long duration of the movie. And all the surprises are so well wrapped in subtelty, that you wont even see it coming
• Fab cinematography, you feel you are in the 70's. Most of it so well shot

What you can sleep over:

Robert De Niro's non existent appearance in the movie. The moment he arrives, you only wish you could see more of him. The mafia angle was covered very shallow

The dampeners you should be aware of:

There were areas where you feel, you see nothing beyond Bale and Amy. Other characters do pick up slowly and then suddenly drop. The lead pair overshadows all others by the end of it. Thats certainly not fair, each one of them are such amazing actors after all

PS: You do notice a few instances in Hollywood flicks these days where in you feel the need of songs as well like Bollywood movies :D I think high time they adapt something from Bollywood too :D

  

My rating:4/5