Amsterdam review: David O. Russell film is a disappointment of epic proportions
Hindustan Times"A lot of this really happened," announces the opening card in David O Russell's Amsterdam, which is based on a nation's past that clearly tries to mirror residues in our present. The confusion does not stem from the fact that Amsterdam deals primarily through a chaotic chapter in the U.S. political history, but how the screenplay, co-written by Eric Singer cooks up a woke sense of cockiness through it all, determined to make its audience inclined towards the personal reveals of its idiosyncratic characters. Caught into this bizarreness is the artist Valerie who Burt and Harold saw in Amsterdam years ago- and which mainly forms the hedonistic, extended flashback the film firmly draws its steam from. Amsterdam is a disappointment of epic proportions, one that longs to make sense of the inevitable longing for a better life, the hallucinations of the past, and the devastation caused by war.
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