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Movies

Star-Studded Amsterdam Is a Tedious, Terrible Warning About the Rise of Fascism 

A stacked cast and an Oscar-nominated director can't save this flop.

Peter Suderman | 10.7.2022 10:29 AM

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For at least the first half of Amsterdam's running time, I had no idea what sort of movie it was trying to be.

A quirky murder mystery? An earnest historical picture about race relations in the early 1900s? A story about the power of friendships even in times of war and turmoil? A zany conspiratorial thriller?

Scenes dragged. Jokes flopped. Performances felt forced and flustered. The shaggy-dog-story structure was so haphazard that the movie occasionally stopped to explain itself with expository voiceovers, as if the characters themselves were worried they were leaving the audience cold.

Nothing about it worked in the slightest. What was this movie even trying to do? 

And then, about halfway through the film, a character rifling through a rich man's papers discovered a pamphlet labeled "The Committee for Sound Money." This, it turned out, was the code name for an even more insidious conspiracy—a secret, historical plot against America by a group of wealthy, racist, corporate bigwigs. 

Ah! Finally, the movie's raison d'être: Politics. More specifically: Fascism. Amsterdam, it turns out, is a warning about the rise of fascism in the United States.

Even more specifically: It is a tedious, tendentious, borderline-unwatchable warning about the rise of fascism in the United States. 

You might expect greatness from Amsterdam just based on the talent alone. The star-studded cast includes Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldaña, Robert De Niro, Mike Myers, Timothy Olyphant, and even Taylor Swift. Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all those stars. 

Instead, Oscar-nominated writer-director David O. Russell takes this veritable gold mine of a call sheet and extracts lifeless reads that don't connect with each other. Every one of these performers can hold an audience's attention, but Russell forces all of them into awkwardly stagy line readings with no life or energy. At times it's less like watching a polished Hollywood product and more like watching a particularly cold dress rehearsal. 

The blame for this movie's failures goes entirely to Russell, who loosely adapted the story from the real-life tale of World War I veteran Smedley Butler, a Marine General who a small group of corporate types attempted to bribe into becoming their fascist figurehead in a little-known failed coup in the 1930s. Russell clearly wants Amsterdam to be a madcap historical romp that closes with a serious message bearing contemporary relevance. 

Fascism is always lurking in the background of American power and society, the movie wants to say, and fascism, well, it's pretty scary. So as the movie wraps up, we get a bunch of scenes in which characters explain, in so many words, that fascism is always lurking in the background of American power and society, and that, well, it's pretty scary. 

It very much is. But Russell's cringe-inducing script and antic, mannered direction not only don't make the case, they provide absolutely nothing for a viewer to hang onto during the attempt.

There's nothing inherently wrong with using a movie to make a point about politics. But anyone attempting to do so should probably first attempt to make something that works, you know, as a movie—ideally something that doesn't end with a farrago of half-baked monologues that play like Twitter threads by someone who just read an interesting Wikipedia article about a little known historical episode. 

Even that description probably makes Amsterdam sound more interesting than it is. The two-and-a-quarter-hour movie is simply a chore to sit through, to the point of wholly undermining its nominal thesis. Who knew that the rise of fascism could be so plodding and dreary?

It's not that this sort of thing can't be done well. Russell seems desperate to mimic Wes Anderson, and especially Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel—a stylized, zany, quirky-comic ensemble period piece about the rise of fascism that was funny, human, absorbing, and affecting. Amsterdam is similarly styled as a warning about the ever-present darkness in America's history and character, a darkness that still exists today, and to which all good citizens must be perpetually on guard. 

After sitting through this film, however, I have a different warning to deliver: Don't go see this terrible, turgid mess. You'll regret it if you do. 

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  1. Cyto   3 years ago

    But do they have the slightest idea what fascism is?

    Because I suspect that they are actually fanatic supporters of all of the actual aspects of fascism that are on the rise in the US.

    1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2   3 years ago

      To realists "fascism" is a political system characterized by ethno-nationalism, racism, militarism, or anti-democratic religious fanaticism.

      You know, the opposite of liberalism.

      1. Red Rocks White Privilege   3 years ago

        Well, that's certainly a succinct post-WW2 perception of it.

        Mostly, it's just "anything leftists don't like."

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        2. Pear Satirical   3 years ago

          Fascism is derived from socialism. Mussolini was a life long socialist, only forming fascism as a response to the revolution not happening. As for Hitler, well the name of National Socialism speaks for itself.

          1. Roberta   3 years ago

            But Hitler wasn't even a fascist. I used to go by the mostly libertarian critiques of "fascism" (such as by John Flynn), but eventually I realized fascism was sui generis, never duplicated. All the other -isms either have, or deserve, names of their own because there's little to unite them other than characteristics we already have other names for.

            1. Pear Satirical   3 years ago

              Nazism is similar to fascism, with several identical policies and goals to it. Perhaps it is to fascism what Anglican is to Methodist.

            2. Ted   3 years ago

              You’re splitting hairs on this one.

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        4. TomJensen1945   3 years ago

          Not exactly. Leftist like, support and practice many facets of fascism.

      2. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

        ethno-nationalism, racism, militarism, or anti-democratic religious fanaticism.

        One out of four ain't bad. But keep trying.

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      3. JimboJr   3 years ago

        "racism" - probably the most sizable product of the democratic party to date. There is no issue they cant break down by skin color and demonize on

        "militarism" - rejecting any notion of a settlement between Ukraine and Russia so we can further a proxy war that we are almost solely funding, knowing it could lead to nuclear brinksmanship...check

        "anti-democratic" - its OK (and patriotic!) for them to question elections and call presidents / govs illegitimate but if anyone does it of them, its treason. In fact, even inquiring about election security or insisting on basic measures of integrity such as voter ID is considered a threat by them.

        "religious fanaticism" - wearing a religious totem on ones face after being vaxxed, having the virus, and proving said totem doesnt work? Sounds like that fits the bill to me. A rosary would be equally effective to a cloth mask. How about ostracizing those who dont comply with govt mandated injections? How about treating any conversation or questioning of the party line (the science!) as heresy? How about daily calls for apocalypse due to humanity's original sin against mother Gaia?

        The modern left is the posterchild of fascism.

        1. TomJensen1945   3 years ago

          This is an excellent summary of what is wrong with modern American leftists. Especially the section on racism. When the President of the United States can, when filling an opening to sit on the highest court in the land, in effect say, “Whites and men need not apply and won’t be considered,” and the media applaud it, then you have reached a level of institutional racism in the U.S. that would make even a fascist blush.

      4. DesigNate   3 years ago

        So glad you’ve finally accepted that FDR was a full on fascist.

      5. CE   3 years ago

        Or any system where the state controls large corporations to do its bidding, through a system of penalties and rewards.

        1. TomJensen1945   3 years ago

          Like in the USA today?

      6. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

        If adjectives were definitions that's be it. The policies of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini exploited religious gullibility to gain power to impose collectivist populism with crucifixes on the walls. Fear of communists--the same thing, but without the crucifixes--was the hook. Republicans like TR, Comstock and book-burners mixed race-suicide eugenics praised to the heavens by Kaiser Wilhelm in 1908. Sterilization laws written in America were adopted by Germany. Both Kleptocracy parties contain fascism. (https://tinyurl.com/3k65fvnd)

        1. Ted   3 years ago

          *yawn*

          Go take your meds grandpa.

      7. TomJensen1945   3 years ago

        The opposite of classical liberalism, yes, which is more akin to Libertarianism today. Certainly not the opposite of modern American liberalism, which supports militarism, authoritarianism, censorship, racism and, given that modern liberalism requires more faith than reason, religious fanaticism. Modern American liberalism has numerous striking similarities to fascism.

    2. JimboJr   3 years ago

      based on a quick look at the cast I can make a very good guess that they have the same level of insight as Tony as to what constitutes 'fascism'

      It would be like watching a movie about the dangers of terrorism made by ISIS

      1. Ted   3 years ago

        It would probably be a product of far more self awareness than any morality tale Hollywood pukes out.

    3. But SkyNet is a Private Company   3 years ago

      Fascism isn’t lurking in any background, it is firmly in the forefront of current government and corporate policy lol

    4. TomJensen1945   3 years ago

      So true.

  2. Inquisitive Squirrel   3 years ago

    The theory almost never fails: the amount of star power found in a movie is inversely proportional to the quality of said movie.

    1. Ra's al Gore   3 years ago

      Don't you dare slander Cannonball Run.

      1. DaveM   3 years ago

        +1 funny

  3. mad.casual   3 years ago

    There's nothing inherently wrong with using a movie to make a point about politics. But anyone attempting to do so should probably first attempt to make something that works, you know, as a movie

    And cue 'misogynistic, racist, incel, review-bombing, man-baby, not-for-you, toxic fan base' reply...

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

      not-for-you

      Amsterdam is for everyone...

  4. Agammamon   3 years ago

    "You might expect greatness from Amsterdam just based on the talent alone. The star-studded cast includes Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldaña, Robert De Niro, Mike Myers, Timothy Olyphant, and even Taylor Swift. Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all those stars. "

    Uhm, *why*?

    There's one great actor (and it's not present day DeNiro) and a couple good ones and . . . that is it.

    1. JesseAz   3 years ago

      Margot and Zoe are hot though.

      1. Pear Satirical   3 years ago

        Taylor Swift is easy on the eyes as well.

        1. MK Ultra   3 years ago

          Hard on the ears.

          1. Pear Satirical   3 years ago

            Depends on the song.

      2. Ted   3 years ago

        Those two are worth a good long weekend in a luxury hotel suite. They’re welcome to bring Anya Taylor Joy with them too. I’m sure I can find something for all three of them to do.

    2. TW   3 years ago

      Yeah, but Timothy Olyphant seems to have better luck with his TV raher than his movie roles.

      1. Red Rocks White Privilege   3 years ago

        Olyphant is this generation's Tom Selleck--he has too much screen charisma for TV, but not quite enough to elevate himself as a major movie star.

        1. Ted   3 years ago

          I really liked him in Justified. Walton Goggins too.

  5. Agammamon   3 years ago

    "Every one of these performers can hold an audience's attention"

    Really? *Robbie*? Fully clothed?

    1. JesseAz   3 years ago

      You dont think tay swift can carry a film??? Bigot. She was in Cats. Blockbuster.

    2. Ted   3 years ago

      I can look at Margot Robbie in clothes all day. Although I prefer her without them.

  6. Think It Through   3 years ago

    If we could get a mainstream released film about the dangers of leftism and progressivism and how we have to ALWAYS BE ON GUARD that they will corrupt a society and take over its institutions like vines take over the walls of Wrigley Field, I'd go see that.

    I'm not a filmmaker, so the libertarian response of "go make your own film" is not an option.

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

      Good luck finding a theater that would carry it, a mainstream reviewer that would give you a positive review (not that we need that much any more) or a streaming service that would carry it.

      Your only option is a Daily Wire type approach. Host the movie on your own website. Until Keffals has that taken down because libertopia.

  7. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

    Huh, too bad, looked like it might have been a good movie, from the quick trailer I saw.

  8. Bubba Jones   3 years ago

    I expect to see more voiceovers in movies because the target market of 18-34 is largely incapable of figurative language.

    1. MatthewSlyfield   3 years ago

      Does it have subtitles in Emoji?

  9. Bill Dalasio   3 years ago

    Fascism is always lurking in the background of American power and society, the movie wants to say, and fascism, well, it's pretty scary.

    Why? I mean, if fascism is lurking around Mom, baseball, apple pie and happy puppies, maybe fascism isn't so bad. That's part of the problem with the leftist notion of fascism. If fascism is all-pervasive in all things leftists don't like, then maybe fascism isn't all that objectionable, if you happen to like some of those things. Meanwhile, those leftists ignore the very real progressive roots of fascism. Hell, the notion of a political ideology as an all-pervasive threat that has to be perpetually on guard against is itself a feature of fascism. And we can see, looking at, say, the 20th century history of Argentina, that a real, live, honest-to-goodness fascist state isn't something progressives object to and is, in fact, something they outright romanticize.

    1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2   3 years ago

      You are on the right track.

      A soft version of fascism could be considered conservative. For example, fascists are enamored with militaristic power (see Donnie's fixation on staging a military parade in DC). But respect for the military is a conservative value and healthy for the nation. A rabid leftist might show open disdain for the military.

      All fascist properties are conservatism on steroids. An Archie Bunker type bigoted conservative is not the same as a genocidal maniac like Hitler.

      A true communist (disease of the left) is actually worse than a non genocidal fascist.

      Conservatives always struggle with this.

      1. Bill Dalasio   3 years ago

        Conservative in what tradition? The Anglo-American tradition was rooted in classical liberalism. And when you look at the pre-Buckleyan "Old Right", the biggest complaint seems mostly that the New Deal was bringing about a managerial welfare-warfare state. How you get from there to support for fascism is....idiosyncratic.

        1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2   3 years ago

          Because like conservatism Fascism is built on tradition.

          Heritage, nation, military, duty, religion, family, are all "fasci" or sticks which held together make the group stronger.

          Classic liberals reject fasci. Classic liberals embrace individualism.
          Conservatives embrace groupism - religion, nation, etc.

          1. JimboJr   3 years ago

            The mantle of classical liberalism was taken up by conservatives and collectivism by the progressives. It really is that simple.

            The right is much more likely to address a person as an individual and embrace policies that involve less govt intervention.

            The left almost defines itself now by lumping people into intersectional categories, applying stereotypes, and also desperately wants to create policies with disparate outcomes for people based on immutable characteristics.

            Unless you know, you completely close your eyes and cover your ears.

            1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug 2   3 years ago

              We're not discussing progressives. They are obviously anti-individual.

              We are discussing the small group of classic liberals that reject conservatism and fascism.

              The foremost champion of individualism was Ayn Rand - who thoroughly rejected conservatism. Modern conservatives are infected with groupthink and she saw that. She called Reagan "an enemy of freedom".

              I side with Ayn Rand.

          2. Bill Dalasio   3 years ago

            "There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy." - FDR on Mussolini

          3. Pear Satirical   3 years ago

            Fascism is built on socialism, hence the reason the Nazis were the "National Socialists".

        2. Ride 'Em   3 years ago

          Hmm, the best example of fascism in the US is FDR's National Recovery Act, the NRA. The NRA controlled sales prices and even prosecuted a dry cleaner for running a sale on dry cleaning without permission. We still have remnants of it in the price control on milk that forms the panic on the agricultural bill every four years or so.

          Congress, rather than fixing it, would rather get in a panic and pass a wasteful ag bill every few years.

          1. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

            The best example of American fascism is Herbert Hoover "building a new race" by enforcing the Felony Beer Five & Ten Law, wrecking the economy, then using the Moratorium on Brains and Narcotics Limitation Convention to elevate Hitler to power in Germany. (https://bit.ly/3fSacLM) FDR inherited a Republican-wrecked economy sprouting communist party members, a feature of all ruined economies. (https://bit.ly/3eeRgpU)

      2. Bill Dalasio   3 years ago

        And "All fascist properties are conservatism on steroids." Er, no.

        You specifically overlook the example I give of Argentina, that had a decidedly left fascist wing. Even at the time fascism was popular, it wasn't seen as at all conservative. It was hailed as a viable "Third Way".

        1. JesseAz   3 years ago

          The most fascist states in history came from the left.

    2. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

      Fascism is religious communism. So all the warm and fuzzy things that make communism smell good to Yourup stay, with added mysticism. Like our own Kleptocracy, each version chooses a few things to fake outrage over and demand the initiation of deadly force to "fix." It is this insistence on the initiation of deadly force that the LP was organized to "fix." The opposite of the initiation of deadly force is the initiation of political freedom. https://bit.ly/3fTxWii

      1. Ted   3 years ago

        We get it, you’re an anti religious bigot. Now fuck off.

  10. Lurker Kurt   3 years ago

    So many movies produced by Hollywood to warn us of the dangers of Fascism lurking in the shadows...

    Never a warning about Marxism...

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   3 years ago

      That's because they're all Marxists.

    2. Number 2   3 years ago

      In the 1930s, when this little known coup supposedly happened, Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White Were actively spying for another form of dictatorship while holding high position in our federal government.

      I won’t hold my breath waiting to see a movie about that.

    3. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

      There was "Song of Russia." With Nixon prompting, Ayn Rand explained to Congress the movie is communist propaganda. Rand even did her own impersonation of Elizabeth Dilling's 1939 testimony by offering to answer an additional question only if allowed the full time it took to prove it. During WW2 Stalin was America's "ally," and to Hollywood screenwriters, THAT was the difference between the two competing versions of communo-fascist Socialism.

  11. NOYB2   3 years ago

    And then, about halfway through the film, a character rifling through a rich man's papers discovered a pamphlet labeled "The Committee for Sound Money." This, it turned out, was the code name for an even more insidious conspiracy—a secret, historical plot against America by a group of wealthy, racist, corporate bigwigs.

    Amsterdam is evidently a piece of fascist propaganda. The last thing fascists want is "sound money", as history shows. Nazi Germany's economic and social policies are similar to those of the semi-fascists in Hollywood and the semi-fascists making up the current administration.

    1. Bill Dalasio   3 years ago

      similar to those of the semi-fascists in Hollywood and the semi-fascists making up the current administration.

      Pretty much. As some point, I'd love to see someone poll the question:

      "Do you believe we should have a society where we coordinate our efforts through the government across culture, industry, academia, and society in general to the benefit of society as a whole? Under such a system, people who didn't want to cooperate with this social coordination would be shut out of society until they stopped being so selfish and learned to work together for the common good."

      My bet is that you'd find huge amounts of approval for the proposition. Probably strongest at universities and Hollywood.

      1. Quo Usque Tandem   3 years ago

        Because, in their sanctimonious arrogance, they believe they are and always will be on the winning side.

        1. ElvisIsReal   3 years ago

          Which is hilarious, considering they JUST spent 4 years as #THERESISTANCE

      2. Roberta   3 years ago

        And especially if you add to the first sentence, "...and do so scientifically, choosing the best proven experts in each field to guide its development?"

      3. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

        "Are you FOR or AGAINST the initiation of force?" Infiltrators try to make this a Trojan pulpit shouting "FOR" to convince libertarians to drop freedom and instead adopt looter totalitarianism. Before the Moot Loser option, Reason comments were like making non-smokers watch a series of cigarette ads aimed at getting literal suckers to change from deadly Brand A to Brand B polonium-laced free radicals and nicotine. Freedom to infiltrators is crazy talk, like quitting smoking is to Big Tobacco corporations.

    2. JimboJr   3 years ago

      "The Committee for Sound Money."

      Maybe they are competing for gaslighting points with "Inflation Reduction Act"

      1. Utkonos   3 years ago

        They’ll never WIN!

  12. CE   3 years ago

    And then, about halfway through the film, a character rifling through a rich man's papers discovered a pamphlet labeled "The Committee for Sound Money."

    So now you know what they're really afraid of.

  13. NotForNoReason   3 years ago

    >"It very much is. "

    I pretty much stopped reading at this point. lol No way.

  14. Cloudbuster   3 years ago

    Christian Bale: Talented but difficult
    Margot Robbie: More looks than talent
    John David Washington: Football player
    Chris Rock: Annoying comedian
    Anya Taylor-Joy: Talented
    Rami Malek: Overrated
    Zoe Saldaña: More looks than talented
    Robert De Niro: Insufferable, nasty old has-been
    Mike Myers: Long past the expiration date on his shtick
    Timothy Olyphant: Talented
    Taylor Swift: Taylor Swift

    I'm underwhelmed.

    1. Ted   3 years ago

      Mike Myers works far better in an ensemble cast as a character actor than as a lead. Although it didn’t involve a lot of screen time, I enjoyed his performance as General Fenech in Inglorious Basterds. He should take more roles like that.

  15. Libertariantranslator   3 years ago

    Girl-bullying Grabbers Of Pussy define capitalism as sending men with guns to hunt down pregnant women, hippies, brown people suspected of plant leaves and rob, cage and shoot them even if it means another Great Depression and loss of investment and savings. Their faith-blinded cluelessness is the more evident because they actually expect US to be as stupid as that. The odor of their insistence will--they hope--cause bystanders to imagine Libertarians must ALSO be fascists, thereby reducing our law-repealing spoiler vote clout. Yet Orange Hitler lost.

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  17. Livemike   3 years ago

    Imagine people so fascist FDR wasn't fascist enough for them.

    1. Ted   3 years ago (edited)

      I’m sure Biden looks at the Japanese interment and is ready to say “hold my beer”. At the rate he’s going, they should start rounding up dissenters shortly after the mid terms. He’s already having FBI raid anyone associated with Trump, and a large number of pro life advocates. Then there’s the indefinite detention of the J6 protestors. Which Reason has yet to cover.

  18. DaveM   3 years ago

    I saw this movie on its opening night. It had a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I am here to tell you that they earned each and every digit of that score.

    Sometimes you run across something so bad, it's good. This is not one of those times.

    1. Ted   3 years ago

      Syfy had a Bring it On sequel last night that was also a slasher film. Probably more enjoyable.

  19. no2dimrats   3 years ago

    This movie is about the rise of Hollyvoodoism and most of the actors can join the Irrelevants' Club whose vice president is none other than Robert De Niro. Current president is Hillary Clinton and that is the only presidency she'll ever win.

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