Amsterdam

Amsterdam

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.

  • Released: 2022-11-04
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thrillers
  • Stars: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldaña, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert De Niro, Michael Shannon, Andrea Riseborough, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Olyphant, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Leland Orser, Beth Grant, Christopher Gehrman, Shiree Nelson, Tom Irwin, David Babbitt, Mike Azevedo, Martin Harris, Christopher Kager, Donovan Hurst, Jarrett Johnson, Kawan DeBose, Deon Sams, Mel Fair, Vaughn Page, Bonnie Hellman, Max Perlich, Jessica Drake, Ed Begley Jr., Colleen Camp, Gabé Doppelt, Lauren Shaw, Brandon Davis, Casey Biggs, Dey Young, Sean Avery, Gigi Bermingham, André Tardieu, Casey Graf, Rebecca Wisocky, Daniel Riordan, Steven Hack, Floyd Armstrong, Leonard A. Tucker Jr., Baxter Humby, Richie Harrington, John Pirkis, Shedell, Kindsey Vaughn, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
  • Director: David O. Russell
 Comments
  • SnoopyStyle - 13 January 2023
    so many stars
    It's 1933 New York City. Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) is a doctor working for disfigured war veterans. His war buddy Harold Woodman (John David Washington) is a lawyer. Harold recruits Burt to perform an autopsy on their former commander Bill Meekins at the behest of his daughter Liz Meekins who suspects foul play. He was probably poisoned. While meeting Liz on the streets, a car runs her over and kills her. Harold and Burt are accused of her murder. During the war, Meekins assigns Burt to lead an all black regiment. Burt gains respect from Harold and the other men. They are all injured and hospitalized where they are treated by nurse Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie).

    There are so many stars in this one. Sometimes, they're distracting like Mike Myers and Taylor Swift. Mostly, they are overkilling to fill the secondary roles. The stardom overload is distracting. Writer/director David O. Russell seems to be impersonating one of the Coen brothers except the humor is not there. It's deliberately quirky without actually being funny. The second half turns a bit Kafkaesque. It does have something to say, but the last ten minutes get rather preachy. The tone of this movie is all over the place.
  • musclesz - 8 January 2023
    Seemed like Wes Anderson without the interesting characters and plot
    This felt like a Wes Anderson movie. Kind of goofy weird characters, interesting scenery and sets. But it's just a cheap imitation.

    This is a slow moving nothing burger that wants to be much more. Or appear to be more.

    Despite a well recognizable cast, the actual characters were shallow and boring. Several minutes of people just dancing around in what seemed like a way to kill time on the screen.

    At the end we are reminded that in the beginning it said "a lot of this really happened". So it's a semi-documentary, but with goofy, unrealistic characters? Ok. Seems a bit contradictory. Pick a lane, if you want to be serious about the actual events which sound interesting, take it seriously. But being a big goofball movie then at the end pretending to be biographical didn't mesh.

    An honest attempt may have been to introduce the brutality of war and how they created their own fantasy world. But everything was goofy. A woman getting killed is goofy. People with war injuries, goofy.

    Pick a lane, that's all I'm saying.

    And at the end you're wondering "is that it?". With all the talking, was there supposed to be a moral presented? Is that what this was all about?

    I can see why people may like it. It has a lot of meaningless but appealing eye candy. But my god, it's so slow moving, going no where, you have to have infinite patience to endure it to the end. Or just watch it at home and use the FF>> button.