What happened?

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2006)

One can usually say that even a mediocre Woody Allen film is better than most of the films released today. But this one was just match-pointless. It went nowhere. The entire movie up until the last 40 minutes were useless. The theme of luck (which is a great one) was underdeveloped, and there was no investment in this back story of the protagonist. We are just told he has come from a poor upbringing, and are expected to be invested in his nascent success and social climbing. His character was almost totally uninteresting. I'd rather have watched a movie about the Tom Hewett character. The introduction of the detective characters near the end of the film made it seem like another, more interesting movie had been going on, which we had been missing watching the main one. I liked this movie better when it was called Crimes and Misdemeanors. One saving grace is that Scarlett Johansson is hot. But why no gratuitous boob shots like those of Christina Ricci in Anything Else?