another flop[

Rating: 2/10 (1 March 2006)

Well, I was the unlucky one here. Having almost entirely successfully avoided Allens films, I blundered into this one. Very wary of being the therapist to his hackneyed outpourings,he collared me for this one, and afraid of the rain starting up outside again, I sat through this frantic outpouring.
Right off let me say that his character, Nola was terrific. Kind of his Daisy Miller. Dunno if he was stealing any Henry James consciously, or even bits of the lout Townsend from Washington Square, but what the hell, he was just in for the one visit. As for the rest of his tangled dream, you will have to unravel it for him.
Allen, unfortunately is shameless, having no qualms about laying virtually every quivering ghost in his past before you. Very likely the English woman his character marries is probably the stand-in for Mia Farrow, poor Mia, but then again I said I am not his analyst.
Woody, you have to stop committing blunders like blowing people to pieces in the middle of London with a shotgun They make very loud BOOM BOOMs almost as deafening as bombs, then rather calmly walking away from the mess by only bumping into a rather chagrined passer by. Not only that, you repeat the mistake by making this even bigger bomb of a movie Seek help and stop these crimes, no matter how far they are from Hollywood.