After
all the 4 star reviews, critic’s raves, plus the 7 Golden Globe
nominations, including  Best picture, for “American Hustle” this will
definitely be a minority review.

Along with cementing her
versatility as an actress, Jenifer Lawrence  is the main, if  only a
few, reasons to see this film. Her role as Rosalyn Rosenfeld is as far
from her performances as Ree Dolly in “Winter’s Bone”, Katniss Everdeen
in “The Hunger Games” series or her Oscar winning Tiffany Maxwell in
“Silver Linings Playbook”. Here she recalls the ditzy, dumb blonds
through all of Hollywood film history and would be right at home in a
1930s, 1940s, screwball comedy. She is the shining light in “American
Hustle”.

The soundtrack offers a variety of music from Duke
Ellington’s “Jeep Blues” to Amy Adams and Christian Bale dancing to
“I’ve Got Your Number” and then her and Bradley Cooper dancing in a
disco to, who else?, the Bee Gees and Jennifer Lawrence lip synching to
“Live and Let Die” all definitely a plus for the movie.

One surprise, to me, was the role played by Patsy Levine and I will leave it at that.

Bradley
Cooper, as an FBI man setting up a sting using con artists Adams and
Bale, is, as Bale is, in love with Adams and with her low cut down to
there dresses that is understandable, brings a lot of his charm to his
role. The cast as a whole do the best they can though many times
Christian Bale mumbles, like Marlon Brando did at his worst, making his
speech indecipherable.

The 1970s and New York at the time is
duplicated by the production crew and the hair styles are standouts,
especially for Copper and Bale in two scenes.

While most critics
praised the direction by David O. Russell, and the screenplay by Eric
Warren Singer along with Russell, I just didn’t get into the film or
characters and looked forward to every appearance by Lawrence.