Empty Void

Rating: 1/10 (11 August 2006)

This film is horrible. There is no chemistry between any of the characters. It is dull and there doesn't seem to be any meaning at all, or reason. It's hard to care about any of the characters. The dialog is so written, as in, it seems as if the actors are reading written lines. The entire film seems as if it's a rehearsal rather than a film. The story centers on a young man who is a tennis instructor for the rich and then he marries into a very nice (much too nice) rich family. He then, for no apparent reason other than lust, has an affair with an American actress, girlfriend of his brother-in-law. Then she starts to get clingy and so he kills her. That's that. First though he kills an old lady and then he kills her to make it seem like a robbery. But we get no idea, or real reason, why he has to do all this just to keep his marriage, since he seems, throughout this entire overlong movie, to hate his wife. This film is compared to 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' because of the basic theme, and that is a travesty. 'Crimes and Misdemeaners' is one of the best films of all time, while this film is one of the worst, by Woody or anyone. It's just a horrible, boring nightmare. And we have to sit through the exact same dialog and themes that Woody has put into way too many films, things like: luck is the meaning of life, faith is meaningless, and science dictates everything we know. It just gets tiring, especially hearing these deep themes being spoken by people in their twenties, who would never, ever, ever speak this way. Woody's dialog seems more fit to sixty year old Aristocrats, not twenty-something rich airheads. This movie is horrific. Avoid it at any cost.