The Hustle 2019

They're giving dirty rotten men a run for their money.

6.2 / 10   2410 vote(s)
PG-13
Comedy Crime

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

Homepage https://www.thehustle.movie/
Release Date 2019-05-09
Runtime 1h 34m
Directors Chris Addison, Michael Coulter, Mark Goddard, Ángel Lafuente, Gareth Webb, Anna Maluenda, Paul Hayes, Matt Bensley, Eman Kazemi, Cristina Amengual Watson, Christian Otty
Producers Rebel Wilson, Roger Birnbaum, Alison Owen, Ilona Herzberg, Dale Launer, Suzie Shearer, Charles Hirschhorn, Trent Walton
Writers Jac Schaeffer, Stanley Shapiro, Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning, Paul Henning

Normally, I really like Anne Hathaway. Especially recently. But not only did I think The Hustle was pretty bad, even she specifically was pretty bad in it.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

Gimly

Point by point remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and while I don't hold that movie in as high regards compared to others, this spit in its face with offering absolutely nothing new with the comedy falling flat at every turn and worse yet, where Michael Caine and Steve Martin were great together, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson shared no chemistry.

Since this movie did not deviate at all from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I found myself mostly bored and just waiting for it to end. Although I've seen worse, I was never angry or anything, just thinking what was the point?

JPV852

A totally class-free remake of the var superior "Bedtime Story" (1964) that is both vulgar and crass. All it needed was a little bit of subtlety and it could have been quite a fun role-reversal caper; instead it is clumsy and cringe-makingly unsophisticated. No amount of glamorous location photography can make it any less so. I never leave the cinema half way through a film, but was sorely tempted with this nonsense.

CinemaSerf

It's pretty much a re-make of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" which was itself a remake, only this one isn't as good.

It's actually just "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" that has been gender swapped and, like all of the gender swapped remakes of late, the humor, the plot, the entire story is wrapped around the fact that the gender has been swapped, and done so without an actual story or humor.

It's basically a remake with women and the draw is intended to be that it has women in it this time rather than men... and that doesn't work without a story or actual jokes with punchlines and timing, jokes that divert expectations... not jokes that are revolved around a swap in characters and nothing more.

Save your time, it's just like Ghostbusters, What Men Want, Oceans 8 and all the other movies that have done the exact same thing and failed because they lacked an actual story and humor

GenerationofSwine