Shockingly, this film was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar......

Rating: 2/10 (20 May 2016)

.....I could not believe how many Academy Award nominations it received. But the Academy has been sinking for a long time along with most of Hollywood elite. Little is left of the glory days when good films were built on solid stories, good acting and superb directing. American Hustle had not of that. What it did have in almost every scene was nearly exposed breasts.Any movie that has a character in dresses and blouses that plunge as far as her navel and more in her every scene is a movie that is begging for eyeballs because there is no other reason to watch the movie. Amy Adams is pretty enough but she was as lame in this as in Leap Year. Christian Bale who has been top notch in most of his roles was stuck with paying a pathetic character in need of a bottle of booze and an retirement in a 1972 mobile home park. Bradley Cooper over played almost every scene...only in one did he really shine when it all crashed down around him. Jennifer Lawrence was wasted in this bore of a movie.