Potentially interesting story. Silly treatment.

Rating: 2/10 (28 December 2015)

The casting of Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro suggests this is going to be a good film. It's not. It's over-stylized with caricatures rather than characters, a cartoon approach to telling the story, and very little humour. Presumably the three actors wanted to work together with writer/director David O. Russell again after Silver Linings Playbook, regardless of how weak the script actually was. This was the wrong writer/director for this particular story which could have been quite interesting if it had got a straightforward telling.
We give it 2 stars for Jennifer Lawrence. Bradley Cooper was in a very minor role and DeNiro has lost his mojo entirely.