Intriguing start that peters out quickly. A whodunnit set in the years between WW1 and WW2. A high profile general is murdered and his daughter seeks the help of two of his former regiment. When she is also murdered they must work to clear their name whilst re-encountering figures from their past and from across New York's elite.

Suffers from a pretentiousness throughout that involves every character being 'quirky' in place of any real ingenuity in the narrative. If you strip away the 'kookiness' of the star studded casts delivery the plot is very simple.

Amsterdam definitely suffers from the fact that every character is 'odd'. As a result there are no 'straight' characters to play against.

A likeable film with a huge cast but nowhere near as clever as it thinks.