The trailer looked ok, at least good enough to spend a couple of hours in a comfortable cinema. Yet writing a brief review I had to look at a backlist to remember films that were quite so bad.
Poor acting, poor editing, drawn-out and paper thin storyline, the movie, if we can call it a movie, is more like a feeble, dramatised whine-song from Mumsnet. One that some sing-along songs by ABBA would at least have improved. The high point is wondering whether the two main (female) characters actually care about each other but, as neither seem particularly worth caring about, neither do we.
It fits the current American tropes of "good-stripper-goes-bad", "they are real people after all", and "even if the sugar-coated fairytale of empowerment begs for sympathy it always leads to degradation and crime". So runs the perfunctory moralising (and one that from a sociological point of view is a very one-sided, even political, interpretation more indicative of the times than any underlying reality).
If you watched Paul Verhoeven "Showgirls" - a film that might be considered among his worst, and compare it to Hustlers, well Showgirls would be an award-winning showstopper. A suitable outlet for Hustlers might be a low budget cable channel where housewives are bored with their knitting.
Poor acting, poor editing, drawn-out and paper thin storyline, the movie, if we can call it a movie, is more like a feeble, dramatised whine-song from Mumsnet. One that some sing-along songs by ABBA would at least have improved. The high point is wondering whether the two main (female) characters actually care about each other but, as neither seem particularly worth caring about, neither do we.
It fits the current American tropes of "good-stripper-goes-bad", "they are real people after all", and "even if the sugar-coated fairytale of empowerment begs for sympathy it always leads to degradation and crime". So runs the perfunctory moralising (and one that from a sociological point of view is a very one-sided, even political, interpretation more indicative of the times than any underlying reality).
If you watched Paul Verhoeven "Showgirls" - a film that might be considered among his worst, and compare it to Hustlers, well Showgirls would be an award-winning showstopper. A suitable outlet for Hustlers might be a low budget cable channel where housewives are bored with their knitting.