| Boring |
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| written by TlovesJ |
April 22, 2008 - 10:36 AM PDT |
Beautifully filmed, acted, and directed, but ultimately boring. Definitely doesn't feel like a Woody Allen film. Apparently the story was mostly taken from the novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, so you might want to know ***SPOILER ALERT***
that they guy gets away with murder in the end. SCOOP which is also a Woody Allen film with Scarlett Johansson is a much more enjoyable movie. |
| or an american tragedy |
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| written by jonastheleper |
September 21, 2006 - 9:24 AM PDT |
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0 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| Its as if Woody took Dreiser's An American Tragedy and set in London squeezed a bit of his own witt and humor on it and then sprinkled a little Hitchcock to top it off, ready to serve. |
| Game, Set, Match |
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| written by bruiser3130 |
July 1, 2006 - 12:02 AM PDT |
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3 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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This movie has received far more accolades than it deserves. One feels they are watching a soap opera since there are many shrouted cell phne conversations with passe lines such as "I told you to not call me here". In fact cell phone conversations take up a good chunk of this movie.
The ending is so bad it borders on the rediculous.
There is very little tennis action in the entire cinema although the beginning prepares you for exactly that.
Mr. Allen has directed some good movies but this is not one of them. |
| Crimes & MisdeMatchPoints |
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| written by talltale |
April 9, 2006 - 9:18 PM PDT |
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7 out of 10 members found this review helpful
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Yes, stylistically this is nothing like any earlier Woody Allen movie. And no, it isn't very good. MATCH POINT begins well enough, but midway--earlier even--it starts to fall apart via a lot of clunky exposition, characters added (her neighbor, his friend from way-back) only and obviously to serve their special purpose, and some truly inane dialog (those endless arguments: enough already!). Perhaps worst of all is the appearance of the dead late in the movie to engage in a simply dreadful bit of faux philosophizing, but by then intelligent viewers will be shaking their collective head in disbelief.
While the married-into family is indeed a bunch of witless fools, even they could not so easily be duped. The villain literally and constantly stands SO far apart from his would-be family (sure, it's symbolic!) that you half expect any or all of those family members to finally turn to him and say: "Either join us for Christ's sake, or get the hell out of here!" Allen clearly has no feeling for plot, mystery, suspense, surprise or any of the standard devices used in putting together this kind of film. So why in the world did he attempt it? (His "Crimes & Misdemeanors" actually offered much more intelligence, philosophy, even creepiness--although Allen had to spoil it by inserting his own "comic" persona into the mix, interrupting some of his best touches with out-of-place humor.) Indeed, some of Woody's later movies have not been gems (but theyve also not been nearly as bad as many would have it). So please, let's not, via undue praise, convince Mr. Allen to give us more of this kind of malarkey. |
| A modern-day Crime and Punishment |
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| written by JKelly |
March 28, 2006 - 8:10 AM PST |
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0 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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| ...but answers the question of whether the anguish Raskolnikov experienced by the innocent being swept into his crime would translate to someone else, perhaps trying to understand if his pain was universal. |
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