starts to go wrong, but once that sinking feeling sets in, it never leaves. I’ve come to think of David O. Russell as one of the very best contemporary American directors, but this film swiftly leaves the shining path and wanders off into the wilderness.
Suddenly, it’s flashback time, and we’re on the battlefields of France, where Burt, as the only available non-racist, is put in charge of a group of black soldiers and forms a bond with Harold. In hospital, recovering from some serious wounds, they meet Valerie , an American who has somehow ended up as a nurse in the French medical corps, although she is really anartist. Valerie and Harold become lovers, with Burt as the inseparable friend.
It’s now becoming clear that the murderers are part of a secret organisation that aims to turn the US into a fascist state. The three friends, abetted by two peculiar secret agents, played by Michael Shannon and Mike Myers, realise it’s not enough to save themselves, they have to save America! Russell has based his story on a real political conspiracy of 1933, called the Business Plot or the Wall Street Plot, in which a group of wealthy tycoons planned to mobilise angry, disaffected war veterans to replace Franklin D. Roosevelt with a dictator. The scheme came to nothing after it was denounced by Major General Smedley Butler, in words that have been lifted directly for this film. Nobody was ever prosecuted.
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