Woody Allen goes to UK

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2008)

Woody Allen goes from New York to London.In the film Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), after realizing he won't be a professional tennis player he takes a job as a tennis coach.He befriends Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), a rich playboy and starts a relationship with Tom's sweet sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer).They get married.There's no real passion in that between them.But he finds passion with Tom's actress fiancée Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson).Chloe wants to become pregnant but he gets Nola pregnant instead-and she wants to have the baby.She urges Tom to tell her wife.Tom sees no other way out of the situation but murder.Woody Allen calls Match Point (2005) his arguably the best film he has made.I probably wouldn't go that far but it is very good.The way the music has been used in the film is extraordinary.Opera music has a big role in Match Point.The young Scarlett Johansson collaborates with Allen for the first time and she does a great job.Jonathan Rhys Meyers is brilliant as Chris.Emily Mortimer really is sweet and good as Chloe.In Match Point you can find some similarity with Allen's earlier film Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).It also had the whole Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment theme.A person who feels terrible guilt after the deed.Match Point plays with love and moral issues in a fantastic way.