Writer-director David O. Russell (The Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) presents Amsterdam, the story of three friends—Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale), Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie), and.
For a movie meant to be a lively romp, writer/director David O. Russell's Amsterdam is remarkably laborious — an overlong, overstuffed windup that amounts to.
"A lot of this really happened!" teases the opening card of David O. Russell's Amsterdam, but truth be told, the question that audiences will likely have while watching this star-studded film is, 'What the hell is happening?'. Set in 1930s New York, Amsterdam starts out by introducing Christian Bale's Burt Berendsen, a doctor experimenting on new pain treatments for wounded.