The Hustle

A generally unfunny and regressive remake.

This is a slab of cold, unfunny comedy, just lying there, very very odd given the two talented performers at the center of it.

The Hustle just isn't very good, and the only con being pulled is on any audience member who has found themselves coerced into buying a ticket.

Hathaway is a pleasure to watch but this role is beneath her pay grade.

The Hustle wants to say something about the inherent sexism of the rich... but it never manages to overcome its weak jokes and tired plot points.

It's the irony of all ironies that one walks away from "The Hustle" feeling a little, well, hustled.

The most disappointing component of the film is the blandness of the cons.

The fact that the story goes nowhere is no fault of the leads, but of the writers. There's nothing there but repetitive predictability. Skip this one.

This remake fails to give an old con new life, delivering a re-heated product that has lost much of its comedic turns and tricks.

All of the elegance of a giraffe on roller skates and all of the laughter of an evening talking intergalactic taxation with George Lucas.