Good Luck

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2006)

This is a great film. One of Woody Allen's best. There are many, many people who complain of plot holes in this film. What they are talking about are not really plot holes. They are LIFE holes. The events such as the police not investigating Nola's (alleged) pregnancy is maddening.
That however, is not a shortcoming of the film, but instead one of it's strengths. Chris Wilton was a very, VERY lucky killer in that there were many ways he could - and should - have gotten caught. But, due to a seemingly open and shut case, and a lazy police department, he emerged completely unscathed.
In a way, Woody Allen's manipulation of the audience to an almost angry state over this fact is the mark of a master.
To those who see similarities in this to Crimes and Misdemeanors - yes there are. The endings are somewhat similar. However, in the vast scope of films that have been produced, so many films resemble so many other films, that to criticize them for that is ridiculous.
Would you talk down to Hitchcock for always directing a suspense thriller? Or Keaton for a slapstick comedy? Allen, like many great filmmakers, has his little magic bag of themes. Because he is so prolific, people tend to notice them more than other filmmakers.
Match Point is another notch in Allen's belt of magnificent, intellectual, and thought provoking films.
See it, you won't regret it.