Not even worth a DVD rental

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2006)

The only reason Allen continues to be able to fund his so-called movies is because there are New Yorkers who continue to see his movies out of pity for the loss of his supposed "genius," or they are new to the City and feel that an Allen movie is the obligatory trial by fire to becoming a bona fide Gothamite.
Saw Matchpoint last night in a packed theater and was absolutely astounded that anyone would think this film had any originality. It was like a glossy regurgitation of a film major's senior project, which only family and friends are forced to endure.
It was lamentably long and so predictable to be excruciating. If I wasn't sitting in the middle of the row, I would have left the movie. Allen managed to capture English eccentricities with the capital U of Mitford sisters' fame, which made the two hour (???) torture just barely palatable (immediately offset by the fact that I had paid $11 for this drivel).
Matchputrid will now be my litmus test to find the pretentious bores hiding behind their pseudo-intellect and their gushing declarations that Allen and, especially, his newest film are why New York is the center of their sad universe.