The acting is top notch, its with the pacing i am disappointed.

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2014)

Alright i watched the movie in the wee hours of the night along with my cousins and yeah we did expect a bit like end of the movie showdown. Yeah i know i am a fan of David Russel's other movies like 3 kings, The fighter and yeah i did peek through Silver Linings Playbook. Some of the ensemble cast from the SLP are there as well but i will get straight to the point.
American Hustle begins with " Some of this actually happened" stuff, yeah it did, way back in the late 70s. I wasn't born back then but the world was coming out of the Cuban crisis, the oil crisis and even some cities in the US were being developed through lot of outsourced stuff ohh alright this is getting into unnecessary discussion.
The real point is about the acting and hell yeah Amy and Jennifer gave their best performances till date and nobody is going to deny that. Nope.
Like i said earlier in the summary the pacing was slow as i guess Russel was trying to get the audience familiarized with the characters and the way their lives were being unfolded along the way through continuous voice overs with the 3 lead actors. Christian Bale with his method acting, Bradley cooper his usual self trying to be charismatic as a FBI agent trying to run the show, Jeremy Renner as the Mayor of Camden who is trying to get buyers in developing the city. And one special mention of Robert De Niro, his was a surprise cameo. Okay i don't want to spoil much but way back then the Bureau was trying to curb the corruption with some special sting operations and they did get to arrest some people from the congressional committee and even the mayor as mentioned in the movie as well along the way it unfolds. It might have been one hell of a sting back then and lets hope for the sake of the story that operation did in fact move this slowly as well. But come on seriously some of us will be shifting through our seats and screaming in our heads what the hell is wrong with these guys, nope that was not right we have to say why the hell are we going through this stuff anyway.
Now we did get to see a history lesson fictionalized which was represented well not because of the damn story but its convincing actors and for that i will give a rating of 7.
That's all guys, which is what i can say, damn i should have gone to Wolf of Wall Street at least.