I feel hustled...

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2017)

By the way this movie was hyped, from its stellar cast of Bradley Cooper to Jennifer Lawrence and Robert DeNiro, to its numerous Academy Award nominations, I was expecting an entertainingly exceptional motion picture! Quite frankly, to say it was just average is an understatement.
This 2013 black-comedy from David O. Russell is the story of two con-artists, Christian Bale and Amy Adams, who are forced by FBI agent Bradley Cooper to set up a sting to snare corrupt politicians ~ including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey, Jeremy Renner.
The movie isn't at all captivating nor the plot nuanced with ANY twists or turns. I'd say the only good thing I found with this movie were the great songs interspersed throughout it. How one critic called the film "the sharpest most exhilarating movie in years", and another "riotously funny", just proves to me how IMDb reviewers are much more credible in their assessments of movies than those who do this for a paycheck.
Gave 5* out of 10, mainly for the music...and empathy that Cooper had to endure those daily hair rollers!