Dreadful all round - apart from some of the music.

Rating: 2/10 (16 January 2014)

Annually, I'm always amazed at some of the dismal movies that get nominations at the Globes and the Oscars and American Hustle hasn't let me down this year!
This is an absolutely dreadful attempt at film-making. The premise that low-level con artists could or would be employed by the FBI to snare corrupt public officials stretches the imagination to begin with.
The whole experience felt like 3 episodes of the Starsky and Hutch TV series from the 70's strung together for 2 hours but without the lovable rogue 'Huggy Bear' to bring a sense of 'cool' or humour to proceedings.
2 stars and that's only for some of the brilliant music tracks at the beginning of this movie.