The Hustle

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are clearly trying but completely flounder with a terrible screenplay that meanders from set piece to set piece...

The Hustle is a good idea, and could work as a classic 80s comedy reworking, but this was kinda sad.

A female-led remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Chris Addison's directing debut was unlikely to be more than a mildly funny time-passer. In the event, it fails to make even that grade.

A series of less-than-hilarious set-pieces ensue, followed by a twist that almost nobody in the audience under the age of 11 will see coming.

I didn't hate this movie, but the laughs never reached critical mass for me, either.

The Hustle falls flat as it lacks the ability, originality and complexity to bring a dated comedy into the 21st century.

A generally unfunny and regressive remake.

The Hustle's attempt at satire suffers from the limitations of its imagination, and its failure to realise it needs to be harsher on the con artists than their victims if it doesn't want to make bolder changes to the script's architecture.

The Hustle is very low stakes and I only saw it because I was stuck in a mall in New Jersey for two hours and it was the next thing playing.

It's all exactly as unnecessary as it sounds.