Match Point
Last night I went to see Match Point, the latest offering from Woody Allen. What can I say? Every one knows Woody Allen can be hit and miss. If you see one great Woody Allen film its a sign that you should possibly skip the next one. Match Point on the other hand manages this in one film.
Before the obvious trigger point in the story this was a film I could have happily walked out off. The first, what felt like 4 hours, was the most boring, banal, irritating and stilted film that you could imagine. There are no characters in this film who you would not want to kill in real life. The exposition of the main characters tells you nothing about them. They all have veneer thin motives. No that's a lie they have no motives.
As a display of the English upper class I would hope that this would make most people run to the barricades and start the revolution yesterday.
The incidental conversation was laughable, so badly written and badly acted that I wanted to ask for my money back. People have banal and inconsequential conversations daily, I assume that is what was it was trying to represent, but a 14 year old could have written this.
Then i went to the toilet. When i came back i swear this was a different film. All of a sudden there was tension, there was drama, things happened.
Take my advice go see this film, but skip the first hour. All you need to know is social climbing twat has no morals. Gets involved with rich family of tossers. Then has to make a choice.....then there is a film.
Before the obvious trigger point in the story this was a film I could have happily walked out off. The first, what felt like 4 hours, was the most boring, banal, irritating and stilted film that you could imagine. There are no characters in this film who you would not want to kill in real life. The exposition of the main characters tells you nothing about them. They all have veneer thin motives. No that's a lie they have no motives.
As a display of the English upper class I would hope that this would make most people run to the barricades and start the revolution yesterday.
The incidental conversation was laughable, so badly written and badly acted that I wanted to ask for my money back. People have banal and inconsequential conversations daily, I assume that is what was it was trying to represent, but a 14 year old could have written this.
Then i went to the toilet. When i came back i swear this was a different film. All of a sudden there was tension, there was drama, things happened.
Take my advice go see this film, but skip the first hour. All you need to know is social climbing twat has no morals. Gets involved with rich family of tossers. Then has to make a choice.....then there is a film.
posted by gerbil at 6:34 pm
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