A little slow but well worth the time to see it.

Rating: 8/10 (7 June 2006)

www.kajatm.com In Woody Allen's latest movie he explores the value of a good condom, some good luck and just how a woman's constant hounding can drive a man into another woman's arm. Chris Walton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyer) is a former tennis star trying to make ends meat teaching tennis to the rich. Chris eventually meets Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), the son of a very rich business man. Tom and Chris become friends which leads to Tom hooking Chris up with his homely sister Chloe Hewett (Emily Motermier). Chris being the intelligent man that he is decides to pursue Chloe because lets face it money, like alcohol, makes a girl look a lot better than she is. As their love grows Chris runs into problems with Tom's fiancé Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson) because no matter how rich Chloe may be he still wants to get into Nola's pants. And honestly can you blame him? If you have ever seen Scarlett Johansson you know what I am talking about. This girl is so hot she could make a burlap bag look good. Chris spends the majority of the beginning of the movie hitting on Nola without her fiancé finding out all the time climbing the corporate latter under Chloe's daddy's help. Eventually because of liquor and a PO'd mother-in-law Nola is driven into Chris' waiting arms in an open field in the back of Chole's and Tom's parent estate.
Chris and Nola pursue their relationship further after a messy break up with Tom and the fact that Chole keeps hounding Chris to knock her up. Because Chris is protected at work by the fact that he is the son in law to the man in charge this give Chris ample time to leave work whenever he wants to go and bang Nola. Chris ends up knocking up Nola which causes a series of events that could potentially ruin his relationship with his sugar mama Chole. Nola unwilling to the abort the mission Chris comes up with a plan to "take care" of the situation. What that plan is I will not say and how it ends up you will have to go and find out for yourself.
One thing that really bothered me about this movie was the fact that Chris continually takes calls from Nola in front of his wife on his cell phone. It is like Woody Allen has never heard of call ID or voicemail. Not once in the entire movie does Chris check his phone to see who was calling and if it was a good decision to answer the phone. If you are honestly screwing around on your wife I think you might do a better job of screening your calls.
The moral of this movie is that if you are going to have an affair with a hot Hollywood actress you'd better bring a condom because you never know when one of your little guys is going to get past the goalie and potentially ruin your life.
I really enjoyed this movie and I would recommend it to anyone. The movie moves kind of slow at times but the ending makes up for it. But then again, what do I know?