With the Oscar Nominations set to be announced on the 16th of January the race is starting to hot up for Films biggest prize. 2013 has been a great year for cinema with many different movies in the race for Best Picture, the favourites being Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska, Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers Club, Captain Phillips and American Hustle. On January 2nd I went to the Coronet to watch American Hustle.
American Hustle is a crime comedy-drama directed by David O. Russell. David O. Russell, best known for the Oscar winning 'The Fighter' and 'Silver Linings Playbook,' within this movie collaborates with Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence for the second time. The movie centres around con artists Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Adams) who are made to work for the FBI in a complex scheme to catch congressmen receiving bribes.
As a movie I have to say that I found American Hustle slightly disappointing. I was definitely not a bad movie but I had to say I expected a bit more from such a talented director as well as such an impressive cast. There were still definitely many positives from the movie, particularly Christian Bale's performance. I personally thought that Christian Bale's performance was outstanding and that he did not lose character for one second. Bale has established himself as a serious method actor following his drastic weight loss and gain for films such as American Psycho, The Machinist and Batman Begins. For American Hustle Bale put on 40 pounds in order to create a more realistic representation of Melvin Weinberg. Within the movie Bale, who was raised in Dorset, is able to effectively represent a 'Bronx' accent, Bale's physicality within the movie is also central to his performance. The other main positives of the play included the use of music as well as David O. Russell unique directing style which included fast and intelligent dialogue.
However there was a lot to the movie that was questionable. I thought the way that the movie was sequenced was a bit off point, but at times I was almost left perplexed about how obvious some of the movie actually was. An example of this would be the scene in which the fake 'Sheikh' meets with mafia lord Victor Tellegio (De Niro) where the fake Sheikh who is an actually a mexican is spoken to in Arabic by Tellegio. This whole scene was a bit of a calamity as the Sheikh is supposed to Emirates Arabic but he is spoken to by Tellegio in normal Arabic. I have to say that I was also disappointed by Amy Adams performance as Sydney Prosser. Adam's English accent faltered throughout the movie and some of her lines where very blandly delivered.
American Hustle is a crime comedy-drama directed by David O. Russell. David O. Russell, best known for the Oscar winning 'The Fighter' and 'Silver Linings Playbook,' within this movie collaborates with Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence for the second time. The movie centres around con artists Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Adams) who are made to work for the FBI in a complex scheme to catch congressmen receiving bribes.
As a movie I have to say that I found American Hustle slightly disappointing. I was definitely not a bad movie but I had to say I expected a bit more from such a talented director as well as such an impressive cast. There were still definitely many positives from the movie, particularly Christian Bale's performance. I personally thought that Christian Bale's performance was outstanding and that he did not lose character for one second. Bale has established himself as a serious method actor following his drastic weight loss and gain for films such as American Psycho, The Machinist and Batman Begins. For American Hustle Bale put on 40 pounds in order to create a more realistic representation of Melvin Weinberg. Within the movie Bale, who was raised in Dorset, is able to effectively represent a 'Bronx' accent, Bale's physicality within the movie is also central to his performance. The other main positives of the play included the use of music as well as David O. Russell unique directing style which included fast and intelligent dialogue.
However there was a lot to the movie that was questionable. I thought the way that the movie was sequenced was a bit off point, but at times I was almost left perplexed about how obvious some of the movie actually was. An example of this would be the scene in which the fake 'Sheikh' meets with mafia lord Victor Tellegio (De Niro) where the fake Sheikh who is an actually a mexican is spoken to in Arabic by Tellegio. This whole scene was a bit of a calamity as the Sheikh is supposed to Emirates Arabic but he is spoken to by Tellegio in normal Arabic. I have to say that I was also disappointed by Amy Adams performance as Sydney Prosser. Adam's English accent faltered throughout the movie and some of her lines where very blandly delivered.
American Hustle has generally been very well received by critics receiving an average of 8/10 on IMDb. American Hustle has also been nominated for 7 Golden Globes. Personally I do not believe that American Hustle will be successful in the Oscars. It may be competitive for the Film Editing and Best Original Score Oscars but I do not believe it is in serious contentions for any of the Big prizes, as I expect Christian Bale's performance to be snubbed of even a nominations.
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