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
  • hdempsey-69790 - 22 June 2024
    Missed chance to tell the story of the Business plot.
    When I heard that there was a movie being made based on the story of Smedley Darlington who won the CMO twice and was a Marine officer who was admired by his men and was approached by a group of influential businessmen in America who planned a coup to remove Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and create a Fascist dictatorship like Germany as tey believed it would get the country out of the depression and increase their wealth. Smedley went along with the plot to gather information and then went to the FBI with the information. Eventually he gave evidence in front of Congress but ultimately apart from a few minions nobody in the higher levels of the plot were prosecuted and were able to turn the story and use the media to call Smedley and liar and throw scorn on the plot idea. If you know of this story and know this film is loosely based on this plot you can see elements of it in the movie but it all seems disjointed and the fact it is a comedy does not work when trying to tell the story of something so serious that happened in the 1930's and failed but later in history seems to have been successful with later Presidents like JFK.
  • sherwoodbandit-1977 - 9 February 2024
    More Failed Potential Courtesy of David O. Russell...
    I will never be David O. Russell's biggest fan. His movies always have a ton of potential with interesting concepts, star-studded casts and intriguing film style. Yet across the board they have always failed to capture my attention. I know enough about Hollywood to realize why they are critical darlings, but I find they always have an over-bloated sense of themselves, and miss the mark on the main objective one always hopes for when watching a movie...to be entertaining. Amsterdam is no different. Inspite of well written characters, David O. Russell's signature sluggish pacing still found me checking out mentally less than an hour in. Christian Bale is always a favorite of mine, and his continued collaboration with Russell are what keeps bringing me back to his films time and again. I can see why Bale loves him, as he continuously writes dynamic characters for Bale to sink his teeth into. This is only the second movie I've seen John David Washington in and he is fantastic again. The performances are all good in fact. The movie overall just lacks something that I can't quite put my finger on and that is very much on brand for my relationship with the film catalog of David O. Russell.