David O. Russell has made a hot mess with Amsterdam, which squanders its massive and talented cast in service of nonsense. aurora_amidon's review:
opens with a tagline that reads “A lot of this really happened,” a cutesy testimony meant to foreshadow that the film will at once relay a fascinating true story, while also cheekily muddying the line between fiction and reality. But the only thing that writer/director David O. Russell muddies is his own plot.
A lot of this confusion is tonal. The film flip-flops between making you think it concerns some ominous, world-threatening conspiracy, and then leading you to believe it’s just another film about three amigos who just can’t stop getting themselves into trouble, gosh darnit! The switcheroo occurs at such breakneck speed that, by the halfway point, you’ll probably just want to give up and stop guessing what the film is actually about .
When watching a mystery unfold, it’s important that the viewer is given at least a semblance of a chance to figure out what’s going on, and take a wild guess at how the whole thing might end. But in, Russell insists on keeping his audience in the dark for most of the film’s runtime. What’s left, then, is nothing more than a brief, vaguely satisfying “a-ha!” moment when the semi-twist ending comes mostly out of nowhere.
Is this bond a strong enough adhesive for its thin and bewildering story? Not really. Surprisingly, the chemistry between otherwise phenomenal actors Robbie and Washington is non-existent. On top of this, we aren’t given much reason to believe the trio truly love each other enough to commit to a lifelong bond, apart from montages of them dancing together at clubs in Amsterdam. And, of course, there’s themThe lack of chemistry between the leads is surprising, because they are all just so damn.
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