Big cast movies always seem like such a cash grab. Some producers out there get this idea into their head that if they just stack the cast with enough names then the movie will be a surefire success. Then there's movie fans who know that, more often than not, these end up being a huge mess. They might make money, but that doesn't make them good. Amsterdam is one of the latter.

For the record, I think our three leads? Not terrible, but it's so obvious they have nothing to work with. It feels like this thing was being made up as they went along and no one had any clue what they were doing. The story is nonsensical, the stylizations are meant to be quirky, I'm guessing, but only serve to keep the movie from having any rhythm or flow. Its remarkably disjointed, nothing ever seems to come together and in the end, there's no suitable payoff. It feels like it's trying so hard to be the love child of Wes Anderson and Tarantino with its erratic and nonconsecutive storytelling but fails to understand the nuance and skill that actually takes.

The truly disappointing thing is, I want to like this movie. Bale is being weird, Washington is starting a great career and Robbie is always captivating but this is just a letdown at every possible opportunity. It never got to the point of being overtly awful but, to quote mother's everywhere, "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed."