Amsterdam

With a star-laden cast and acclaimed Director David O. Russell at the helm, the new film “Amsterdam” arrives and touts a story mostly based on real events. Following injuries they sustained serving in WWI, Dr. Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) and Harold Woodman (John David Washington) return to New York to find a wor…

**Amsterdam's uneven pacing and erratic story mishandled its amazing potential and left me wondering when it would finally end.** Amsterdam comes roaring out of the gate with a fast-paced, quirky, charming, and unique mystery of the likes of Sherlock Holmes or Knives Out. The list of celebrities and actors continues…

_Amsterdam_ does nothing to reinvent the wheel but does everything well enough that I had a pleasant time in the theater. The performances all around were excellent. Christian Bale was brilliant in this film, every new role Bale finds himself in he knocks out of the park, and I continually ask myself what can't he do?…

Even if it is based on true events, it's all just a bit to slapstick and fa-fetched for me. The story centres around "Berendsen" (Christian Bale) who is asked by his pal "Woodman" (John David Washington) to help out the widowed "Mrs. Meekins" (Taylor Swift) whose husband - a former American general - has mysteriously d…