Was OK, could have been better

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2014)

For me this started off slow, got really good and fizzled in the end. I really have to bash the end because it really ruined the movie for me. How could Bale and Adam's character walk away scott free or rather scratch free after pulling off a con that got so many people in trouble? How could they walk away after trying to con De Niro's character who is supposedly the most nefarious mob enforcer in the country? So what he didn't get taken down, he would have still wanted retribution for the attempt. I mean come on seriously? The film was based on actual events so I think in the 70's the con people would probably end up in a dumpster somewhere. Also if an FBI agent misplaced 2 million dollars of his agency's money because he got conned, he would have no doubt been fired. How can the audience be expected to take a movie seriously when the director himself does not?