DVD | Match Point

Rating: M - Contains Violence & Sex Scenes.
Duration: 118 mins.
Genre : Drama.
Actors: Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Matthew Goode.
Release Date: Available now.

I think all Woody Allen movies should be forced to have a big warning on them: This is a Woody Allen Movie. Had Match Point been forced to carry such a warning, I could have saved myself 118 minutes of wasted time.

Some people rave about Woody Allen, so much so, that when Melinda & Melinda was released, I decided to see what all the fuss was about. That’s when I discovered that Allen is hopeless at writing and directing. Of course Match Point doesn’t carry such a warning, in fact it does to lengths to hide the fact.

So enough of my attacks on Woody Allen, lets get back to the movie. Match Point plays out like a bad copy of Cruel Intentions. One could almost say a made for adults version. Gone was the blatant nudity and absurd (but hilarious) storyline, and in its place was carefully filmed sex scenes and social climbing through marriage.

What Allen managed to make was a calculated, predictable story of lust and luck. Yes, luck. You see, where by all the real characters were just there to portray the storyline, luck was the main character, the big star, the main reason. Luck, as Mr Allen would have you believe is the only thing controlling our lives.

Food for thought
If luck is all we can hope for, is there any hope at all?