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Those are reasons to consider seeing the film.Īnother is the on-screen work by Bale (“Vice,” “Ford v Ferrari”), who throws everything he has at making the movie as engaging as it possibly can be there is a lot of try-hard going on here. And you do not exactly need to squint to see parallels to some things happening today. It’s laudable that “Amsterdam” will help some folks learn about this chapter in our history. Although other characters appear to be amalgamations of various folks, it is clear Russell based Dillenbeck largely on Butler. Roosevelt with a highly decorated Marine, Smedley Butler. Russell’s story is inspired by the Business Plot, which entailed a group of wealthy fascists conspiring to replace American President Franklin D. The adventure that lies before Burt, Harold and, eventually, Valerie leads them to, among others, Valerie’s brother, Tom (Rami Malek) and his wife, Libby (Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Northman”) a pair of spies and enthusiastic bird watchers, Paul Canterbury (Mike Myers, “The Pentaverate”) and Henry Norcross (Michael Shannon, “Nine Perfect Strangers”) and another highly respected retired general, Gilbert Dillenbeck (Robert De Niro, “The Irishman”). (It’s worth noting Bill’s niece, Elizabeth Meekins, is portrayed by music superstar Taylor Swift for a brief but important stretch of “Amsterdam.”)
However, the three are reunited after the boys are pulled into a complex plot - begun when Harold asks a reluctant Burt to perform an autopsy on Bill Meekins (Ed Begley Jr., “Better Call Saul”), the general under whom Harold and Burt served. She was nuts, Burt tells us through narration, but she was their kind of nuts, and the three spent time together in the movie’s titular city in the Netherlands.īack in the States, she is not in the picture. While overseas, they encountered - and Harold fell in love with - Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie), a nurse who makes art out of the bloody metal she extracts from soldiers, such as the shrapnel she removes from Burt’s back. They served together during the war and made a promise they would always have one another’s backs. (John David Washington), an attorney with an office near Burt’s. Left with pain from his time serving during the Great War, Burt works in a colorful office, where he treats patients - and himself - with drugs he’s invented, drugs that aren’t approved in any way but that he feels are necessary for many just to get through the day.įriend No. Burt Berendsen, whom we meet in uptown New York City in 1933. And yet it so often comes across as half-baked, “Amsterdam” at times feeling as if Russell is doing his best to make a Coen Brothers film, at others as if he’s aping Wes Anderson.Īt the center of the story is a triumvirate of friends, starting with Bale’s Dr. The film was years in the making, with Bale and Russell - the two also having collaborated on 2010’s “The Fighter,” which earned Bale the best-supporting-actor Academy Award - meeting regularly to pour over ideas for a movie. You will smirk at its overall oddity, chuckle at an acting choice or three by Bale and laugh even harder at a camera-framing joke Russell nails. Now, to be sure, it has its moments, most of them quirky.
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