patchy

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2006)

Sorry, just thought this was awful. It was obviously trying to make some points, but trying way too hard. For example, the scenes with the detectives felt like they were talking directly to the camera. You could summarize the whole film with "the upper class live privileged lives." The body of the film was various actors mooing along these lines. And I would have found it a much better film if it hadn't been a murder film, which is cheap to resort to for making a point.
I like Woody Allen's work (even when he plays the same neurotic character over and over again), but every time he tries to make a serious crime film, this happens. He should stick to humanistic or slapstick comedy.