American Hustle (David O Russell 2013)

and so anyway it turns out the best thing about American Hustle (2013) is its teasing revelation that the whole Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy thing was merely laying the groundwork for Christian Bale to perform the most remarkable yet of his many physical transformations, of which the drastic weight loss for The Machinist (2004) and Rescue Dawn (2006) are the most renowned but which hardly presage and count as nought compared to his metamorphosis into Adam West…