Con Artists Don't Get Better Than This ****

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2014)

Director David Russell has crafted a wonderful scam artist film in "American Hustle."
Amy Adams with her on again off again phony British accent as Christian Bale, as Irving Rosenfeld, are two hustlers of the finest order who are finally taken down by a federal agent, Bradley Cooper, who is extremely ambitious and forces the pair to work for him in order to bring down government officials and even the mob as the web of influence greatly expands during the course of the film.
As Irving's wife, Jennifer Lawrence, steals every scene that she is in. She may be described as a try-to-be intellect who is really an idiot in her pursuit for happiness.
The action is real and it is refreshing that there is little to no violence in a film whose subject matter would make you think that the guns would be going off constantly.