loosely based on a 2015 New York Times article about a group of strip club employees who drugged rich Wall Street businessmen and scammed them out of thousands of dollars.this is a slick and snappy film that crackles with energy about power dynamics, friendship and female empowerment. It shows the dancers as three-dimensional humans even though the world around them doesn’t treat them with such dignity.The film is told through the eyes of Destiny [Constance Wu].
When the financial crash hits and the club is left empty, Ramona enlists Destiny into a fishing scheme, where they secretly drug men with ketamine and cocaine – there’s a shrewd domestic scene where Destiny and Ramona cook up their toxic concoctions – then get them to hand over their credit cards, and max them out. The theory is: the men won’t complain, because they’re too embarrassed to report the crime. Or wouldn’t even notice the hit to their bank account.
The tables are turned. The men doing the exploiting become the ones that are exploited “The game is rigged, and it doesn’t reward people who play by the rules,” says Ramona. But as the hustle ultimately unravels so too does Ramona and Destiny’sHustlers Review: Lili Reinhart, Jennifer Lopex, Keke Palmer and Constance Wu in Lorene Scafaria's new movie
Constance Wu is great as a sweet yet steely protagonist while the supporting cast is an exciting roll call of New Hollywood including Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart, Keke Palme, Madeline Brewer,
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