Just finished watching a rather excellent in-theater copy of Amsterdam... It is almost impressive to a rating of 9, but I'll need a few more views. A great movie, that reminded me of the Three Stooges meet Inglorious Basterds. In a good way.

Of course, if you care to study actual history, you also know that the full irony of this picture is casting Bob DeNiro in this role as savior/speaker against the new corrupt world order. Should sound familiar, as he is the actual defender of our current administration of corruption. I laughed out loud at the pure despicable hypocrisy of his role.

Politics aside, this is a very entertaining who-done-it with pre-Nazi implications. The race-relations that led to Bale's character leading the all-Black Regiment from New York are a serious stretch at the time. Black Soldiers suffered racism and worse through WW2 (and, on rare occasion still today). But, I loved this three-way love story with these rich characters.

This film probably should've been stretched into a mini-series at least, to give more depth and time for our characters to come together as the Amsterdam team/