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While not an academy award winning movie in any way, it was funny and refreshing like an old fashioned movie. Thank God no Marvel, or sex scenes or F words, or car crashes or special CGI effects. Wish there were more movies like this where you can enjoy a laugh without cringing or seeing another special effect. Loved Anne Hathaway. Her accents alone are worth the price of admission. So enjoy a good old movie with a plot that is funny and performances that are arresting. Don't listen to the bad notices. Everybody wants to see blood and guts nowadays. What a tragedy.

Well.... I think the trailer is more funny than the movie itself. The script is not well written. Not many funny scenes and the acting..... was not impressed. At first I had high expectation because of the two main characters and was hoping to see great chemistry. Unfortunately it didn't deliver.

An obvious ploy to have the viewers pay for Hathaway and Wilson's vacation in Spain. This movie made me question if I had ever liked any of their films. I thought the trailer made it look harmless enough, but now I'm blind in one eye, I've broke out in hives, and my dog won't fetch.

Sir Michael Caine once said "Rather than remake a good movie, remake a bad one, you can only improve it" Advice not taken in this instance. Lately Anne Hathaway has made a habit of making bad remakes or sequels of hit movies (Oceans 8, The Hustle). She has the talent to make good movies,But is making schlock like this.

I liked it better as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with Steve Martin

Not sure why people didn't like this film, it's a funny, light-hearted movie

I really wish people knew how to rate and review on here. It's like anything below a 7 is automatically a 1 or 2. You wannabe critics really need to give your heads a shake and learn how to rate and review properly. Example below:

Directing: excellent Music/score: decent Cinematography: on point Production value: great Sets/settings: amazing Casting: perfect Acting: outstanding! Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are perfect and hilarious together. Many LOL moments, and only a few cheesy ones. Story concept: done before, but decent. Screenplay: bland. Can't say I've ever seen 7 writing credits for such a simplistic story, and thus the result being convoluted and infantile. The premise was decent, but it was missing the oomph I was looking for. Pacing for the 93 min runtime was decent, but the story got a little boring half way through.

Nevertheless, still very enjoyable and entertaining and certainly not worth the bad reviews or low score. It's a solid 7/10 from me, moreso for the laughs I got from Hathaway and especially Wilson, who killed it as always. And if anyone questions this review as fake, click on my username to see my 1000+ ratings and 600+ reviews.

Really bad, acting is terrible and it feels like everyone working on this film thought it was funnier than it really is. I left 3/4 or so into it to get a stiff drink with my friend.

I had zero expectations and it turned out to be a total laugh-a-thone. There are hilarious moments in the movie that overrun the sometimes flawed or absurd script. Starts mildly slow and it builds up pretty well half way through. The ladies are very funny, Rebel Wilson is the female Zack Galifianakis! 8/10 and remember to watch the post-post credits scene!

It feels like Rebel Wilson is always playing the same character in every movie. It's getting old. An ok story. I did not see the male version but make me think of a charmeless version of Heartbreakers.

The only thing good about The Hustle is the beautiful cinematography throughout otherwise so cringe worthy and stupid! Exhausting to watch and aggravating; not much else to say!

I figured I'd give it a try because it's supposedly a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. And Dirty Rotten Scoundrels being an A+ movie classic , I thought it would be worth the risk. Well I was dead wrong and this movie is absolute drivel. Poorly written disgustingly acted terrible paper thin jokes. Even the music was just awful awful. Hollywood has been ruining the good names of so many good things such as Star Wars and the Marvel Universe. Even Game of Thrones has been gobbled up by Hollywood and turned into absolute drivel. But this piece of s*** takes the cake. I no longer have any respect for Anne Hathaway which I always appreciated as an actress. Don't waste your money.

I watched this at home on DVD from my public library, my wife skipped, she had a good e-book.

In a brief review, this same story, with a few changes, was the 1964 movie "Bedtime Story" with Marlon Brando and David Niven. Then the 1988 movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. And now in 2019 "The Hustle", the biggest change being two female characters as the scoundrels, the hustlers.

"Scoundrels" is one of my favorite movies, I have watched it at least a dozen times over the years, so for me watching "The Hustle" was mostly to compare how they handled similar scenes. While I like both Wilson and Hathaway their characterizations are clearly inferior to the analogous roles created by Martin and Caine. The biggest thing this movie does for me is reinforce how good "Scoundrels" is.

For anyone who has never seen "Scoundrels" this will likely be a good watch, suitably entertaining. For all who have seen "Scoundrels" this remake offers very little.

Yes, it is a remake of a comedy classic, which is always tough. And I know that's an impossibly high bar to meet. So don't try. Don't compare. Just kick back, relax and watch for viewing sake. It ain't a masterpiece, but it does provide sone grins and giggles

Do yourself a favor, watch the original and save your money. I am so tired of remaking the old movies and catering to women, and yes, I am a women. Not everything has to be about women. Somethings are better left alone. This movie was one of them. It was bad!

I liked it, it served for a couple of laugh's not intended to be taken seriously... I really don't know why it has such a low score... but whatever it was enjoyable, I don't mind seeing it again if I run into it through amazon or pay per view. I loved Anne Hathaway( one of my favorites') not too familiar with Rebel Wilson, but she's pretty funny. not bad.. not great no excellent, but fun....

This is a very poor remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and unlike that movie this one lacks in humor and talent, Rebel Wilson is woeful yet again, do not waste your money, go and rewatch the original.

This isn't a bad film. It's clichéd but it's got plenty funny moments, and both actresses do a decent job. Anns Hathaways accent is distracting and some jokes fall a little flat but overall its a fun film. I'm not sure why it's gotten so much hate.

This film is the worst. Unfunny pointless remake. Surely Hollywood knows by now Rebel Wilson is box office poison in a leading role. She is so one note as an actress. Please make her stop!

...but I thought it was very funny! Admittedly in a bum on seat, brain in neutral, don't expect to be stretched way. Nearly every review I've seen criticised some aspect of the film... Anne Hathaway's English accent was not accurate, but I thought it was ok... nearer James McAvoy than Russell Crowe. Rebel Wilson not funny? I beg to differ! We are talking slapstick rather than satire but I was kept amused and actually laughed out loud a few times. Not as much as my daughter who was in stitches practically the whole way through but enough that I knew I was watching a comedy. This film is never going to appear in an academic text on theory and practice of cinematography or even a 500 films you need to see before you die list but It is great if you just want a kick back and relax session.

This was just awful,unfunny,cringeworthy...the list goes on.Do these people that make this crap actually watch the finished product.Part of it's hopelessness is rebel thinks she's just sooo funny & sooo talented,well the reality is a total polar opposite tries too hard & just too smug just falls terribly & utterly flat.I mean someone chuckled once & on the way out I've never heard so many 'oh my god's & 'well that was pretty bad'.Even Hathaway was quite awful more wooden & tried way too hard than Wilson,its a stinky unfunny turkey

Save your money. It's not at all funny. I can't believe the studio green lighted such a lousy script and made even worse.