Cassandra's Dream lacks energy and spark. Monotonous and simplistic, it is definitely not worthy of Woody Allen.
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01/30/08
Cassandra's Dream (2008)
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Reviews Counted:113
Fresh:52
Rotten:61
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson act up a storm in Cassandra's Dream, but Woody Allen's heavy-handed symbolism and foreshadowing drains the plot of all tension.
Theatrical Release:23-05-2008
Synopsis: Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their... [More]
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Tom Wilkinson, Sally Hawkins
Director: Woody Allen
Reviews for Cassandra's Dream
McGregor and Farrell deepen this slight thriller into a film that feels almost grandly philosophical, even though you know that when the lights come on, the spell will break
01/29/08
A clutch of disturbingly weak performances stumbling over uncharacteristically terrible dialogue.
01/26/08
It's alive with energy and ideas, not to mention good old-fashioned suspense and tragedy.
01/24/08
Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.
01/23/08
Woody Allen has a history of hits and misses in his directing career. His latest effort falls somewhere in between, although the film is actually a lot closer to his better work.
01/23/08
Farrell and McGregor deliver remarkably nuanced performances in and through their mundane one-dimensionality, taking average Joes and give them average strengths and weaknesses.
01/23/08
When it comes to wrapping up the story, Allen can't seem to make up his mind.
01/22/08
There’s still some snap in Woody’s writing, and still some sharpness to his black humor.
01/22/08
Nearing the end of his career, Woody Allen has become a hit-or-miss director with considerably more misses.
01/21/08
Not a bad film, but it does seem to be rather an unecessary one...middle-grade late Allen, which means watchable but little more.
01/20/08
Cassandra's Dream is like a dream, all right—a bad one, made by an aging filmmaker who, sadly, simply doesn't have the same magic he once did.
01/19/08
Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Wilkinson catch Woody Allen at the top of his game. The result is Allen's best work to date, and Farrell's best performance.
01/18/08
This isn't filmmaking; it's thesis defending.
01/18/08
Woody Allen's style here is expressly Hitchcockian. The tensions mounted and the ability of the narrative to focus on particular elements that end up meaning nothing put this film in league with the master of suspense.
01/18/08
[Delivers] a sharply effective jolt of unease. It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman.
01/18/08
A dreary tale of two loser brothers who agree to become assassins in exchange for financial help from their corrupt uncle.
01/18/08
[The film] forces its characters to ask themselves what they are able to live with and how far they are willing to go to attain personal happiness. It's a worthwhile theme, except Allen has explored it before, in an infinitely more engrossing manner.
01/18/08
The tone feels all wrong.
01/18/08
If Frida Kahlo can paint 55 self-portraits, Woody Allen can make several versions of the same movie. It's only fair.
01/18/08
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