Just bloody awful

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2008)

I am a huge Woody Allen fan but this has to be his worst movie.
The dialogue is leaden (click on the Quotes link - e.g. 'It would be fitting if I were apprehended... and punished. At least there would be some small sign of justice - some small measure of hope for the possibility of meaning.') and the acting generally poor. Leaving aside the clichéd, unimaginative and inappropriate choice of locations, the often amateurish-looking lighting and camera-work, the ridiculously thin, hole-riddled and ill-researched plot, what does this film amount to? A re-hash of a not terribly original theme which was explored to much better effect in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors'.
Woody is entitled to his failures. This is one of his biggest. Avoid.
(NB: Over-enthusiastic hyphenation added by IMDb)