It takes over an hour before "Amsterdam" decides what it wants to be and, by that time, viewers may be exasperated by the film’s quirkiness and exhausted by its meandering storyline.

It features enough eye candy to keep most kids engaged and boasts just enough heft that adults won’t spend 100 minutes looking at their watches.

Although this features high wattage stars, it represents a curiously anachronistic attempt at escapist fare.

As B-movies go, this one is good enough to hold the attention and wring out the tension without doing anything more ambitious.

Some of the individual moments are impactful or effective at evoking nostalgia. But, as they say, the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

When one contemplates the amount of Oscar talent associated with The Son, the result can’t be considered anything less than a disappointment.