London looks great

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2006)

As a Londoner, I was very pleased to see what Woody Allen did with my city - he made it look as good as he has made New York look in numerous previous movies. Small corners of Holland Park which not many people know, as well as the fabulous new buildings in the City, all made it look like a good place to be. The film was unexpected and thoroughly absorbing, and when events took a dark turn, I was gripped. It was impossible to predict the outcome and the unexpectedness of it made this very different from a typical predictable drama about relationships. I was impressed by Woody Allen's ability to produce such a different type of film and although it wasn't what I expected, I enjoyed it. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson were excellent - I believed that they were going through those emotions. The main thing that convinced me that this was a Woody Allen movie was the dialogue - his ability to make characters say things that real people might say, but also in a different way - more revealing than most scripts and clever with words. Definitely worth seeing.