No animation, no chase scenes, no shooting; how could you like it?

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2013)

Because the people in it were all interesting. Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro from Silver Lining Playbook. Add Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner and you have some heavyweight actors who were all great.
I gotta tell you that the story line is rather unbelievable at the beginning, but gets possible after that. What makes no sense in the beginning is the nature of Bale's con. It's a con you can only pull on old people with Dementia: The give me $5000 and I'll give you back $50,000 con job. He and Amy were doing this to ordinary people, and I think the con artists are supposed to disappear after they got the 5 grand.
Yet they lived in the same houses with the same office and nobody laid a hand on them? Amy then got caught in an FBI sting while making the pitch to an FBI stinger, Bradley Cooper. Both Amy and Bale were there together, but the story we get from Cooper is that they got her because she took the check in hand, and there was nothing they could do to Bale. Anybody in the FBI ever heard of a conspiracy?
Enough criticism. Get past that and the rest is credible and very entertaining. Special thanks to Amy Adams and J-Law for showing so much skin, while they were doing such fine acting.