Hustlers Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

Downs

3. It Skips A Key Bit Of Weight

The decision to make the tone mostly quite lightweight to avoid too much preaching does come at something of a cost. Before the criminality all kicks off and at the same time as the financial crash changes the club's clientele as much as it changed the world, Destiny is forced to leave her job when she becomes pregnant.

From there, we're supposed to understand what drove her not only back into stripping (which IS a last resort at this point because the industry has dropped so much) but also to the point of being comfortable drugging other people and robbing them. The inference is that it was the end of her relationship and the struggles of motherhood, but you really don't get to see it enough.

The boyfriend and father of her child is involved for all of about three minutes and we don't ever get any real sense of her struggling. It just feels like part of the middle of that story has been erroneously cut out.