I am all for classy movies first off. I feel like films that film itself in the way of the 40s and 50s are fantastic to me and highly nostalgic. The look in this film is by far the best thing about it. Everything is looked, shot and just overall made to please the eye. And wow it really does get that across. The acting from pretty much everyone is consistently good. However, while the directing, acting, camera work and set design were great. The writing was to off the walls. Amsterdam is a film that goes a mile a minute and tries to push weird plot points, new characters and clues to the mystery constantly. And for a mystery film, it doesn't really work and by the end of the film, I felt like it was both to complicated and to easy of a conclusion. Overall while I highly enjoyed watching the film, Amsterdam suffers from a very clunky story and its own controversy from the director.