Amsterdam Review
David O. Russell’s newest cinematic offering Amsterdam is a difficult project to categorize. It’s part whimsical comedy, part conspiracy mystery, and part character study. Luckily, it manages to mostly pull off its delicate balancing act (while not always nailing its pacing), thanks to the engrossing script and its all-star cast.
Amsterdam’s story is rooted in reality, with an immediate title card informing the audience that most of what they are about to see actually happened. However, to reveal too much about the movie’s machinations would be to spoil the story for anyone who hasn’t brushed up on their early 20th-century American history.
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The story begins in 1933 with an introduction to Christian Bale’s Burt Berendsen, a doctor operating a New York clinic that provides services to veterans of the first World War. Berendsen is a veteran himself, sporting a glass eye and a back brace as a result of his wartime injuries. He is asked by his friend Harold Woodman (John David Washington) to perform an autopsy on their deceased general, as his daughter (Taylor Swift) suspects foul play. What Burt and Harold don’t know is that they are about to be pulled into a much bigger mystery than they think.
This event also serves as an entry point to dive into how Burt and Harold came to know each other in the war, and how they eventually crossed paths with Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie), a nurse and artist, forming a friendship in the titular city. The three are eventually reunited through their inquiry into the general’s death, and the malevolent forces operating just behind the scenes. Together, they must unravel the mystery, eventually enlisting the help of a famous general
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