A lot of hype for a mediocre film

Rating: 5/10 (30 November 2014)

The hype for this film made it look so interesting, but upon watching it, I found just the opposite. The film was acclaimed to have comedic attributes to it, but I saw no comedy. Instead I watched 138 minutes of the actors yelling at each other and/or beating up each other. Bradley Cooper's character made the plot seem almost unbelievable since he severely beat up a man and had no repercussions from it, and got trusted with a large sum of money from the FBI. The mobster had a mustache like a pedophile, yet he's a mobster. That just really did not make sense to me. Finally, there was really no resolution at the end of the movie. All of the characters just really made matters worse for themselves in stead of better.The FBI agent botched the entire investigation, the con artist's wife left him for the mobster, but no one resolves any problems.