Amsterdam

This strange movie was riddled with problems from the start, the plot was predicated on mystery men in the background pulling the strings of society through wealth and privilege for whatever nefarious reason all to be revealed at the denouement, an outcome we had all guessed long since!

What occupied the main body of the movie were either anarchic and incomprehensible contrivances that were meant to be funny, however I didn't laugh once, medical procedures of the most graphic variety, and strange stilted dialogue between the protagonists. There was just no chemistry between the three "inseparable friends" that took the leads.

With an almost entirely black cast there was a bizarre thread of racism/outcast/underclass running throughout the movie, it was quite inexplicable.

My main concern is two fold, the under utilisation of some truly first class acting talent and the terrible editing that led to a lumbering and patchy narrative flow. The movie was 25 minutes too long.

To my mind this movie did not need to be made and overall it flopped at the box office costing 80 million to make and grossing only 15 million overall in the US......ouch!

I am struggling to give this 5 outta 10 and I remembering avoiding watching this in Cineworld after the terrible reviews.