Absolutely BRILLIANT

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2006)

This film is so tremendous that anyone who dares sneak in a spoiler should be summarily shot! Woody Allen, despite his widely published indisgressions, is a genius to have written and directed this most potent story of how luck plays such an important part of our lives. I sat there mesmerized for the entire 124 minutes, intoxicated by the ingenious story that builds and builds and has the type of crescendo conclusion to knock one out of his seat. Indeed, I was seeing a Woody Hitchcock picture. Something touching on "Dial M for Murder" but BETTER. If I could rate this movie higher than 10, I'd go the limit. It contains every element of a super super flick. Great story, superb acting and an ending that, as I mentioned, will knock one out of his seat. "Match Point" is what GREAT movies are all about; it'll grip you from scene one and won't let go until the end when you will say to yourself what baseball broadcaster Jack Buck said when calling Kirk Gibson's miracle last of the 9th home run against Oakland in game one of the 1988 World Series. "I don't believe what I just saw."