Woddy Allen should stay away from suspense

Rating: 4/10 (1 April 2006)

This movie was great with one glaring exception: the plot is hopelessly flawed. Nola was pregnant and she kept a diary. The police couldn't seem to agree whether Chris was a proper suspect, yet doesn't anyone think that Nola's diary would have made mention of the fact of her pregnancy? And that Chris wanted her to abort and she refused? And that Chris would not tell his wife he was leaving her for Nola? And that Nola had threatened to speak to the wife herself if Chris didn't go through with his promised break-up? And of course, a jerk like Chris wouldn't leave his wife after he had married into all that money, him being from such a poor background. And the fact that he worked for his father-in-law, so his job goes away along with his inheritance if he leaves his wife, would further motivate him to do away with Nola in a discrete fashion.
Come on. A little suspension of disbelief might go a long way, but not nearly this far. The police should have been all over Chris like . . . Well, you get the picture. True, the two policemen grudgingly admitted Chris had a motive. Wow! What brilliant deduction! I cannot imagine a greater motive. Realistically, Chris might get away with it in the end, but only after the cops finish an exhaustive investigation of the affair and his married life and remain convinced of Chris' guilt while lacking the proof. But that would have messed up the theme of the movie--better to be lucky than good--because his wife's family would have seen Chris for the fraud he really was and there would have gone the good life Chris so lusted for.
In my opinion this movie was neither lucky nor good. So Woody,I think you should go back to making comedies about neurotic, lovable characters and leave Hitchcock to rest peacefully in his grave.