Fails to hold audience's interest till the end

Rating: 3/10 (1 February 2014)

With an amazingly talented cast of Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner, audience would expect a gripping and active storyline (as the name suggests) but unfortunately the film fails on that account and much more. It wasn't soon when I started awaiting a break - I looked at my watch and it was just 30 minutes. There was 108 more minutes to go!! The movie could have saved about 15 minutes had the story been a little more crisp. One of the two saving graces for the movie, surprisingly, was Jennifer Lawrence who, apart from Christian Bale, provided some comic moments and little bit of substance in acting. Christian Bale looked perfect in his role and lived up to the expectations but the rest of the cast was a disaster. While the other one is the last five minutes of the movie.
You are not missing anything if you haven't watched American Hustle in your life time.