Hustlers Reviews

Since I heard some pretty good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, even if it was not bad at all, to be honest, it wasn’t really much more than that after all. First of all, the story had some potential but I never thought it was really fascinating and it was only mildly entertaining. Basically, you had this gang of strippers who drugged out their clients to steal their money which was maybe an effective scheme but I never thought it was brilliant whatsoever. The link with the 2007 financial crisis was also tenuous at best. Indeed, at some point,  they tried to make it seem as if they were taking their revenge from all these Wall-Street hotshots who ruined the country, even the whole world. However, their whole business, way before the actual hustling, was thriving because these guys were making tons of money. Back then, they couldn’t care less where this money was coming from and they wouldn’t have minded if these Wall-Street guys kept on going like this forever. At least, there is no doubt that Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez both delivered some solid performances. I wondered where I saw Wu before and I was really amazed that she was actually the same girl playing the lead in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’. Seriously, what a range! Concerning Jennifer Lopez, well, it was nice to finally see her getting a juicy character and her stripping and pole dancing scenes were just amazing. And yet, even though Wu and Lopez were fine, I was still missing something regarding their respective characters. Indeed, instead of constantly repeating some similar scenes, they could have developed more these two women because you don’t get to really know them after all. In fact, it was even worse with the rest of the star-studded cast (Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Cardi B, Lizzo, Mercedes Ruehl, Julia Stiles) as they were all wasted with some even more poorly developed characters. Anyway, to conclude, I’m rather surprised that this movie received such strong reviews but I have to admit that it was a decent watch and it is indeed worth a look.