Nothing has changed in 35 years . . .

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2013)

. . . as anyone watching events unfold in AMER!CAN HUSTLE's version of the 1978 so-called "Abscam Scandal" will learn. Instead of expending the necessary effort and brain power to prevent REAL crimes such as billions being stolen from the taxpayers in the Savings and Loan Debacle, the Oklahoma City bombing, billions being stolen from investors in the Derivatives Outrage, the First World Trade Center Bombing, trillions being stolen from homeowners in the Housing Bubble Scam, the September 11th Carnage (the list is endless), American Law Enforcement--led by such rogue F.B.I. agents as Richie in AMER!CAN HUSTLE--dream up the crimes that they think would be fun & neat & "cool" to solve, and then entrap hard-working citizens into actually committing them. So while U.S. robber barons near their goal of concentrating 99% of American wealth into the hands of the Elite One-Percenters, the AMER!CAN HUSTLERS of the FBI get their jollies playing around on our dime.