Woody Allen repeating plots

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2006)

I've seen many Woody Allen films and for some reason he is able almost completely rehash characters in one movie after another.
In "Manhattan" we have a character who's cheating because he can't control his passion. In "Hannah and Her Sisters" we have a character who is cheating on his wife because he can't control his passion. In "Crimes and Misdemeanors" we have the same thing, again a character who is cheating.
So now I am supposed to be impressed with "Match Point" because there is a character who's cheating on his wife? Well, I'm not.
As for the earlier Woody Allen films, the cheating part was a subplot. There were different stories interwoven, sometimes with comedy, which made those movies more interesting. With "Match Point", the cheating story is the entire film. I knew what was going to happen because this movie followed the pattern already set in the other films right up to the end.
No other filmmaker is able to get away with this repetition. I was more than not impressed with this movie. I was frustrated.