I walked out of it

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2006)

Save your time and your money and skip this utterly awful self-indulgent garbage. The characters are completely unbelievable, and the dialog is simply terrible -- real people don't talk this way. I don't know how the story turned out because after 30 minutes, I didn't care to sit through any more, because the plot setup is something you've seen many times before. Every scene went on twice as long as should have, and you can easily see where the scene is going to end up before it gets there. Allen's visual style has always been dependent on his cinematographers, so when he had Gordon Willis or Carlo DiPalma shooting his films, they were visually striking even if the films were not terribly interesting. Here, cinematographer Aderfasin brings no style to the proceedings, so you have a boring film that isn't even worth looking at. IMO, it's time for Mr. Allen to hang it up.