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Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2014)

American Hustle has a star studded cast of Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner and a small cameo role played by Robert DeNiro and some of the best performances of the year.
Bale and the lovely Adams are con artists of the highest order until one day they got caught by Cooper who is FBI. Cooper is a crazy over the top not to smart agent who forces them to work for him until he gets four arrests then they are free. The first person they set up is Renner who plays a high haired New Jersey Politician who is loved and respected by his people. They make him believe that a Saudi Prince wants to invest in New Jersey.
Seeing Renner in this role was strange as every movie that I have seen him in recently he has been some kind of soldier but here he plays a not to bright Politician that everyone loves and he has a genuine big heart about the future on New Jersey.
American Hustle also shows Cooper as the way over the top FBI agent who pesters his boss and beats up his partner to get what he wants for what he thinks is going to be a huge sting bringing down mob bosses, Politicians and Congressmen.
American hustle 2What he doesn't realise is that he is dealing with some serious con artists who are one step ahead of him all the way. The biggest clog in their plan is Bales wife Jennifer Lawrence who is the neurotic wife and doesn't know when and what she has got in the middle of, almost giving away the con on multiple occasions.
As I said before American Hustle has an all star cast and not one of the big names fail to shine. Bale must have put on ten to twenty kilos for this movie. Most of that in his belly. He also has one of the worst comb over's I have ever seen. Not only has American Hustle a great cast and a great story but there is a lot of black dry humor involved.
I saw American Hustle in the cinema and though there are no special effects to make it any better from home viewing I still enjoyed it. This is definitely 'One to see'. I have to give this a happy contented 8 out of 10.
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