interesting, sometimes boring

Rating: 6/10 (31 March 2007)

Chris is an ex-professional tennis player who starts training a rich British guy. As her sister fells in love to Chris, his style of life rises up. However, Chris is in love to his sister-in-law, Nola, so they start a hot romance. As she wants to make everybody to know it, Chris decides to take drastic measures to avoid it. In this film, Allen thinks about luck and its influence in life by telling us a history of a greed man that rises, as he has luck. There we can see his goals and his fears (surprisingly good acting of Rhys Meyers) and his relationships with all the family. It is also compulsory to remark the good paper of Scarlet Johansson (Nola) as a femme-fatal, in which she shows how good actress she is. The history is curious and the directing is good: all scenes are important, any empty one, well build characters (Woody Allen is a great director, he know to make things well). On the other hand, I've missed Allen's sense of humour, most of the movie, though interesting, is quite boring, as we watch all the serious moments in Chris' life, the main problem is that the main character is not very charismatic and some moments, though needed, are quite moment. Probably the most realistic Allen's film in a long time.