Exactly the kind of Woody Allen movie I hate

Rating: 4/10 (27 October 2012)

I never know what I'll get with Woody Allen. Sometimes it will be something terrific like Midnight in Paris, Sweet and Lowdown, Sleeper, or The Purple Rose of Cairo, and sometimes it will be something painfully dull and pretentious like Alice, Hannah and Her Sisters or Match Point.
Match Point, like Hannah, is a movie about a bunch of people who all talk the same, have read the same authors, are familiar with the same music, and who are dull and lifeless and airless (except for Scarlett Johanson, who gets to play the role of the film's one non-boring person). I instantly disliked this movie, which seemed bland and unlikeable, but I struggled on through most of the first half hour in hopes that something would happen.
I hear something does happen eventually, but when I asked my girlfriend about it she said it was a terrible movie with a terrible ending, so I saw no reason to give it more of a chance.