Worth seeing for the clothes and the comb over

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2014)

Once again I went expecting too much and once again I did not get it. Bale was magnificent as the leader of the con, Bradley Cooper was also first rate. The women were just not on the same level. I think this is an interesting and entertaining movie, but there is very little to root for or even care about. I am also now sure that after Silver Linings Playbook and this I am not seeing the fascination with David Russell. They are decent movies but the lavish praise he gets just doesn't make sense to me!
I did enjoy the music and Jeremy Renner does fine work as the mayor. Will someone please tell Robert De Niro he is no longer effective as a tough. I have seen him in too many roles to think of him as anything other than a caricature of himself.