My movie of choice today is American Hustle and... -little spoiler alert for Oscar night- this is it.
First of all I have to admit that I haven´t seen Gravity which I've heard is really good, but I'm seriously doubting I will be better entertained by it than by American Hustle.
Let me do a brief recap:
Amy Adams + Christian Bale, as in David O. Russell´s The Fighter = Solid Gold.
Jennifer Lawrence + Bradley Cooper (plus throw in a bit of De Niro) as in David O. Russell´s Silver Linings Playbook that's pure... well Silver? (at least?).
Add to the Mix the Hurt Locker´s brilliant Jeremy Renner, an Arab speaking Michael Peña and the painfully un-comedic Louis C.K and bam! you got the perfect mix for a cinematographic jewel.
So more of this winning recipe: mix last years Argo´s bitter sense of ludicrous suspense (Feds trying to con the bad guys to a point of silliness), a dash of these year's Wolf of Wall Street's comedy relief and raunchiness (Amy Adams is seriously a walking erection on EVERY scene), and a slight twist (as in plot twist), and let me tell you, if it were a drink, (bitter,dash and twist, voilá!) James Bond would be switching his usually overrated "shaken not stirred" ASAP.
American Hustle has got the stellar cast, in your face, right off the bat, it's got pain and laughter, it's got the not so long ago costumes and cars (we love that, don't we?), it's got the Off Voice just enough to get you going into the character's story and it´s even got some sort of meaning at the end... move over Marty, David O. Russell is the Director for our Generation, American Hustle, hands down, is a winner!! (Sorry it just gets me so excited to watch such a good movie)
