Woody Allen: Game Over

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2008)

There are a few candidates for the nadir of Woody Allen's film career. This one takes the biscuit, scoffs it, then hoovers up all the Jaffa Cakes to boot.
This from The Guardian's "sport on TV" columnist, Martin Kelner: "This may be not just Woody Allen's worst film but the worst film ever made... as though the great Woody had seen a bunch of Hugh Grant-Working Title movies and decided he liked them, but without all the gritty realism." He is not wrong.
Cringe through the opening hour, as the love quadrangle (mixed doubles) develops, as phoned in by the tea boy at the Ministry Of The Bleedin' Obvious. If you get through that without turning off or leaving, you will be treated to some left turns which beggar belief, plus the aforementioned (and infuriating) inaccuracies about the, ah, "London Police".
Poor performances by all the leads - especially the self-regarding Ms Johansson. But some mitigation given the material with which they had to work.