3 stars

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2009)

For me to like a movie I have to like the main character. I usually like Woody Allen movies also and was surprised at my disgust for this film. Here are 3 reasons:
1. The main character was a cheating, lying, manipulating, murdering sack of crap with no appealing characteristics.
2. The movie was misleading. Was it a romance? Was it a comedy? Was it a drama? It was none of the above... it wasn't even a mystery. It was simply about a cheating, lying, manipulating, murdering sack of crap with no appealing characteristics.
3. Skip this one if you haven't seen the movie: The cops didn't do their job. For those of you who saw this, ask yourself... why didn't the police ask the girls friend from work what Nola's plans were before she was killed? And who she was going to meet? Why have the scene with her co-worker unless that had a purpose? Why have the cop solve the crime in his dream and then not follow up? Why have the speech at the beginning of the movie about the ball going over the net, then showing the guy miss the metaphoric net near the end, only to get away with the crime anyways? Life may not be fair, and perhaps the reason Allen made this was to articulate just that. However, in real life this would not have happened. It is every cops job to not leave loose ends, and the poorly written cops in this could not seem to do just that. That is bad writing.
The only good thing about this movie was how great Scarlett Johansson looked. Before seeing this I didn't get why all my friends thought she was so hot and talented. She really shined.