A+ entertainment

Rating: 9/10 (20 February 2006)

Well, I just loved Match Point. The acting was superb throughout. Jonathan Ryhs Meyers & Scarlett Johanson played great against each other. Really every actor stayed right in character and there's no annoying acting moments. Tennis as a metaphor for chance. Opera & ballet & Dostovesky get the Woody Allen treatment, but NOT the heavy- handed campy once over that's in other his other movies. Here, he's serious. There is a development, toward the end of this movie, that was so very Un-Allen that I never thought it would happen. (I can't spoil this unfolding, but I wonder aloud if Match Point contains the first time ever that a Woody movie went down this path?) Anyways, MP was just so very enjoyable I know you'll give it thumbs up.