If you're anything like me, American Hustle is not the movie you were expecting.
That's not to say it's a bad movie. It's actually quite a good movie with a great cast and a pretty engaging story.
The trouble is, it's billed as basically Ocean's Eleven but set in the 70s. Woooooah, look out, Christian Bale is wearing a hairpiece. Wooooooah, Bradley Cooper has a perm. Lololol.
The reality is that it's closer to a flick called The Bank Job that was released a couple years back. But seeing as nobody actually remembers that movie, this was kind of a dumb point to make.