Interesting but ultimately poor film

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2008)

While this was a very pretty film & contained some good actors it was badly flawed. Right from the start you are very aware you are watching an American film, for all the cast try to deceive you. Scarlett is, as ever, stunning & performs her role to perfection, as do the rest of the cast.
However the plot itself is seriously flawed, with many holes in the execution and allowing numerous methods to demonstrate guilt for the police (If they ever stop being adverts for the yellow pages!) If the metropolitan police (Or 'London Police' as in the film) had even an amateur ballistics analyst they would not have kept talking about sawn-off shotguns, which would certainly have been a bit of a giveaway that it was no drug robbery. Likewise the neighbour being shot while taking her medicine in the bathroom does not fit with the idea of her having admitted a stranger into her house, who subsequently shoots & robs her.
The final piece, the ring, would be fingerprinted as a matter of course & unless the police were horribly unlucky would have had several sets of prints, thus possibly giving them more evidence against the culprit or at least showing that the guy involved in the robbery the next day did not rob the lady himself, thus keeping that case open.
All told I expected better - poor show. Only in one way did it live up to my expectations of a Woody Allen film - it was at the very least somewhat disturbed. I'd love to know what a psychiatrist made of his story lines.....