Movie Review: Congratulations, "The Hustle", You Played Yourself
Movie Review: Congratulations, "The Hustle", You Played Yourself Prepare to feel hoodwinked. In The Hustle, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson play feuding con artists who compete to see which of them can cheat a tech guru out of $500,000 first. Alas, it’s all an elaborate cover. The real confidence game is unfolding in the cinema, as viewers slowly realise they paid for a ticket to a sometimes line-for-line re-do of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; one about as valuable as a Ronex watch. It’s not a secret that The Hustle was fashioned as a remake, with Hathaway in the Michael Caine role and Rebel Wilson in Steve Martin’s part. Still, there’s no mention in the opening credits of Scoundrels or even 1964’s Bedtime Story, our creative patient zero. Instead, the decades-dead writers of Bedtime Story, Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning, and the author of Scoundrels, Dale Launer, get a screenplay credit alongside Jac Schaeffer, the only new screenwriter and just one of two st