Insanely fun!

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2014)

American Hustle is establishing a sequence of good films by David O.Russel, the last two being also acclaimed by critics and received tons of nominations to great awards, but if one can be considered a masterpiece is American Hustle.
The cast, I don't need to say, it's terrific. The main characters are interpreted by actors that are living a great momentum in Hollywood, and all of them being really really strong names. Bradley Cooper, is excellent as the Richie Dimaso, and as I really liked him a lot in his previous role with D.O Russel in Silver Linings Playbook, I hated him now. Jeremy Renner was terrific in Hurt Locker, and found success lately with the Avengers, but I liked him(surprise) a lot more in this film, and the mayor Carmine was one of my favorite characters. Amy Adams with a impressive streak of receiving five nominations to golden globes in less 7 years. That's great. She was in a lot of great stuff lately as well, my favorite of her acting efforts being in The Master. Jennifer Lawrence is the dearest of Hollywood and actually the most bankable actress in the world, don't know how that proceeds, but I really liked her in almost all the roles and really liked almost all the films she was in Christian Bale, no comments, because I don't think it's necessary at all. OK, one. Guy is great. Fact.
Now that I did a few comments(obligatory, perhaps) about the cast, let's talk about the film. Yeah, the film uses a lot editing, and I'm generally hate when a film uses by resource to talk the story In flashbacks after a supposedly great conflict, and then when the development is over it go back and continues the story where it's paused I mean, I really hate that, because is so unnecessary,and it kind reports a problem in the film.But, I mean, a very big but(:-D), the editing somehow, works, and a lot, for this film. It genuinely thought that the flashback story was the only way to keep things interesting. So, the edition was really, really great, and the result was very good. This coming from someone that really don't likes overly edited story lines. But in talented hands, overly edited films can be masterpieces(look at Pulp Fiction and Memento, for example), so in filmmaking all it's possible. And in the talented hands of David O. Russel, American Hustle became the second film ever that appeals to this annoying flashback resource and against all odds become a great film. But I just talked about the editing. Now I'll talk about the story. The characters are a great part of it. They are all charismatic and funny in their own way. I liked it a lot, really. It's humorous, but it's surprisingly(my surprise) hilarious most of the time. I was expecting something like a dramatic comedy, but in a percentage I would say that 90% of it is comedy while the rest is drama. So, definitely not a drama like some are saying(what they are thinking anyways?)
The one liners were terrific, because they were idiotic and utterly nonsense. Russel had a great control of the story though, he knew how to balance the things, and due that, the dramatic scenes had a great impact. It's also with a few twists, like 'who is in which side' and stuff like that. This film may con you, literally. It's after all a extremely catchy story, worth of various re-watches. And is definitely one of my favorite films right now. 9.9/10