Yawn!!!

Rating: 2/10 (2 November 2006)

I always much prefer to give glowing reviews about the films I watch or review but in this case I simply cannot.
Although I, like many of you, am a Woody Allen fan and although a great number of the reviews here praise Match Point as a classic and a masterpiece. After an hour of this film I was wondering whether to commit 'Harri Kari' or simply go to sleep until it was over.
I decided to do neither, I sat through the remaining hour to see if it would improve. Sadly, for me, it did not.
I have great respect for some of the actors, notably Penelope Wilton and the great Brian Cox, but even they could do nothing to improve this dismal offering.
Having watched 1000s films of many different genres over the past 50 years I must say that this film for me has to be slotted into my top 50 least enjoyable, although I cannot say it is the worst.
The one redeeming factor and most enjoyable part of this film for me is when I saw the final credits appear on screen.
This is one of those films where there is probably no middle ground. It is either loved or hated by those watching it.
My apologies to those who thought it was a masterpiece but this is simply the way I viewed the film.
Plutus1947