Extremely disappointing.
Match Point (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs 40 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Lucy Darwin, Helen Robin, Gareth Wiley
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 4, 2008
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Snap Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
- Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), English, French, Spanish - Optional
Reviews
The plotting lacks a necessary sense of tragic propulsion; it feels dutifully schematic, its ironies polite and tidy when they should be bitter and merciless.
Woody’s best for ages. Even for non-Allen fans this has all the appeal of a good story well told and capped with a deliciously vicious little twist.
There's a pleasing sense of social claustrophobia - but it's not enough to make Allen's film work.
There's more than a touch of The Talented Mr Ripley about Match Point and Allen keeps the atmosphere extremely tense throughout.
As Allen's next movie is reportedly also going to be set in the UK, he really is going to have to learn to speak British at something better than tourist level.
Oh, Woody. Oh Woody, Woody, Woody. What were you thinking? Or, being brutal, were you thinking at all?
Allen fans would be well advised to stay away lest their idea of Allen's genius become ever so slightly dented.
The film is a dramatic thriller but it's a good deal more playful and witty than many of his recent comedies.
If you can get past the film's few potholes, it has the power to really make you squirm.
... retools the resolution of Crimes and Misdemeanors so its hero, instead of losing his grasp on morality, never even had a hold on morality in the first place.
Proves to be an intriguing enough adventure, provided you haven't seen Crimes and Misdemeanors and don't mind rooting for a despicable, amoral philanderer.
Match Point proves that Allen, at 70 years old, is very much still in the game.
The acting is as impeccable as Remi Adefarasin's lensing is gorgeous.
This is Allen at his best. And with three Oscars at home already, and seventeen other nominations, that is saying a lot.
What makes Match Point, a coolly deliberate murder mystery from Woody Allen, so startling is that it feels as if the director himself has been done away with.
A filmmaker out of touch with his own neuroses, making a final bid for recognition by exacerbating lives beyond his reach.
By developing his characters so superficially, Allen makes it impossible to feel the depth of the horror that he is clearly aiming for.
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