'All hail JLo, who manages to bring Hustlers up a few notches and marks a career best,' says DeadlinePete
up a few notches and marks a career best as her sheer force of personality and savvy, as well as often unfairly underrated acting ability that could put her in a pole position this awards season. Reaction from the Toronto International Film Festival debut this week was through the roof, though I only caught up with it Wednesday evening in L.A.
Essentially this film — written and directed by a woman, Lorene Scafaria, with Lopez among its producers — is Robin Hood with strippers. Smartly set in 2008 at the time of a stock market crash, Wall Street greed and bad behavior at its height, Ramona and her gang hatch a plan to go after the top echelon of their customers, drug them and wait for them to pass out before grabbing their credit card and maxing it out before they know what hit them. Pretty soon anyone in a suit and tie is a target.
The rest of the key gang is fun to watch, particularly rappers Cardi B and Lizzo in cameos, Keke Palmer andLili Reinhart. The male roles are strictly one-dimensional, sweet revenge of its own for Hollywood’s long history of having it the other way.The moral message of this film is questionable, to be sure, but watching it play out now in the Donald Trump era you just can’t help root for these women to succeed in their scam.
after Annapurna dropped it , opens it Friday. Check out my video review of the movie at the link above with scenes from the film.
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