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American Hustle
Movie:![4 Stars :4stars: :4stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4_stars.png)
4K Video:![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Video:![5 Stars :5stars: :5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/5_stars.png)
Audio:![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Extras:![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
Final Score:![4 Stars :4stars: :4stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4_stars.png)
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Movie:
![4 Stars :4stars: :4stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4_stars.png)
4K Video:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Video:
![5 Stars :5stars: :5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/5_stars.png)
Audio:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Extras:
![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
Final Score:
![4 Stars :4stars: :4stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4_stars.png)
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It’s always weird going back through my history of reviews and realizing I missed one back in the day. Especially when it’s a fairly heavy hitting films like American Hustle was back in 2013. Stacked with an all star ensemble cast (including a cameo by Robert de Niro) it hit all the right notes in regards to casting, semi-true story, and tons of double crosses to pull in over 10 academy award nominations and Jennifer Lawrence actually grabbing a best supporting actress win. Yet somehow I managed to NEVER see it. Not in theaters, not in my review process for home theater, and even though I OWN the Blu-ray, I had never actually watched the film until now. Needless to say, It was like I was watching the film with the eyes a younger man, watching some of the biggest stars of the early 2010s pull off a very solid heist/gangster flick over a decade later.
As the opening title scrawl clues you in, American Hustle is pretty much a complete work of fiction despite being based ROUGHLY on the Abscam scandal back in the late 1970s. Unlike most films which try to hint and manipulate the viewer into believing that it’s mimicking a legit story, American Hustle forgoes the typical “based off a true story” angle and tells you right up front “yeah, we’re not really sticking to the facts here. It’s just a story”. Our story starts with overweight con man Irving Rosenfeld (a chubby Christian Bale) finding his true partner (and mistress) in the form of Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams). Much like every romance story, the two fall in love, start a whirlwind romance, and decided to open up a loan agency that’s entire purpose is scamming people out of thousands of dollars. American dream, amirite?
American Hustle is a well crafted crime thriller with a MASSIVELY stuffed cast that all simply steal the scenes they’re in. Christian Bale never disappoints as he vanishes into the role of New York shyster Iriving, and Amy Adams is utterly STUNNING as the seductive, yet determined, Sydney. Jennifer Lawrence is weird for me. I know she got a win for best supporting actress, but I felt she was not nearly as good as the other actors in the film (2013 was right in the middle of her “highest paid and most desired actress in Hollywood” time period). I get that you were SUPPOSED to be annoyed and loathe/pity her, but I just had a hard time really caring that much either way. Bradley Cooper is great as the ambitious, but morally flexible, FBI agent, and having Robert de Niro stor in for a brief cameo as a mobster was icing on the cake (nobody plays mobsters like de Niro).
Rating:
Not Rated by the MPAA
4K Video:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
![5 Stars :5stars: :5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/5_stars.png)
Audio:
![4.5 Stars :4.5stars: :4.5stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4.5_stars.png)
Extras:
![2 Stars :2stars: :2stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2_stars.png)
• NEW: Nearly 15 Minutes of Additional Never-Before-Seen Deleted & Extended Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
Disc Two - Blu-ray
• 11 Deleted and Extended Scenes
• The Making of American Hustle
Final Score:
![4 Stars :4stars: :4stars:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/4_stars.png)
All in all, American Hustle was a load of fun. I came into the viewing completely virginal, and came out sort of disappointed I didn’t watch the film earlier. The 4K UHD is a VERY solid upgrade over the just about perfect Blu-ray (which is a direct port of the 2014 Blu-ray by the way) and we even get a couple of small extras added to the pot and an Atmos track. Definitely a fun flick, a good upgrade over the Blu-ray. Good Watch.
Technical Specifications:
Starring: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Pena
Directed by: David O. Russell
Written by: Eric Warren Singer, David Russell
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 HEVC
Audio: English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), English, Spanish DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rated: R
Runtime: 138 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: May 21st, 2024
Recommendation: Great Film