Situation (un)comedy

Rating: 4/10 (15 February 2006)

It is a great example of how a movie can have all the parts (except story) well done, and still be a looser in my never to be humble opinion.
It has five good minutes concerning the sub-theme of the movie (better to be lucky than good) stretched out at the beginning and the (genuinely Hitchcockian) end, which were indeed good, but the rest was like a 2 hour situation comedy without the comedy--either type of which are forever on my s#*tlist. "Let's watch the stupid people do stupid things so that we won't feel so stupid ourselves." It's right up there with slapstick; it was painful to watch at times.
How this ever got to be considered among the year's best is beyond me, and if it hadn't had Woody Allen's name on it, it wouldn't have been.