Movie review by Rashid Irani: American Hustle is smart, stylish and funny!

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Movie Name:-American Hustle

Direction: David O Russell

Actors: Christian Bale, Amy Adams

Initial release: December 12, 2013 (Australia)

Rating: ****1/2 Smart, stylish and fabulously funny

Tag: Hollywood

 American Hustle consolidates David O Russell’s prominence as a  tramp film producer.  After tackling a genre-bending heist escapade  “Three Kings, 1999”, rowdy boxing comedy “The Fighter, 2010” and original loving comedy “Silver Linings Playbook, 2012”, the director’s seventh feature is a wonderful mosaic of 1970s Americana.

The tract of land could simply have been incorrect as an abusive invention had not an opening title card clarify that, “some of this actually happened”.Always a confidence minter, Russell brings a darkly comic tone to the abusive involving, during other things, money, sex, political corruption and relations dynamics.

It is loosely based on a real-life FBI sting process.  He “Batman star Bale, gaining 40 pounds for the role” is a beer-bellied owner of a New Jersey dry clean-up firm. His actual dealing, however, is fleecing trustful investors. His co-worker in love and sin is a previous stripper now posing as a British nobleman “a cleavage-baring Adams”. Their scams tackle when their latest client turns out to be a cocky federal mediator “Bradley Cooper”.

To ahead thicken the tract of land, an altruistic mayor “Jeremy Renner, doing his top Elvis Presley, modeling” and the scamster’s sneaky wife “Jennifer Lawrence” are thrown into the join.

The film has before now snagged more than a few Golden Globe awards. Will the Oscars follow suit?

American Hustle Official Trailer-1