A good movie

Like everyone else, I have been quite impressed by David O. Russell's recent come-back. Indeed, I really liked 'The Fighter' and I completely loved 'Silver Linings Playbook' which surprisingly turned out to be my favorite movie released in 2012. So, when I heard that he was already coming back so soon with another ambitious project involving in all-star cast with most of the actors from his two last projects, I got pretty excited. On top of that, it was nominated for no less than 10 Academy Awards so it sounded pretty amazing. Well, eventually, it was pretty good but I can’t say I was really blown away by the whole thing though. Indeed, basically, it was a decent story but I couldn't help thinking that they were hiding its weaknesses behind some rather supposedly deep voice-overs and by casting some big actors for virtually all the talking parts. I mean, don’t misunderstand me, all the actors involved delivered a fine job and it was entertaining but it wasn't a really great story. One issue I had for example is that it starts up with 2 con artists who were represented as some really low life criminal losers and, yet, when the plot needed it, they became some kind of geniuses. Also, once again, just like for 'Silver Linings Playbook', I thought that Jennifer Lawrence was just too young to play a young mother. I mean, seriously, she was maybe 22 years old when she shot this movie. Anyway, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch and it is worth a look but don’t expect anything amazing before watching it.

7/10