Would be OK if it weren't a remake of "Crimes and Misdemeanors"

Rating: 3/10 (27 September 2006)

I was watching this movie, and it was all going OK. I'm not a huge fan of Woody Allan, but the movie seemed pretty good until about 2/3 of the way through the movie, when I sat up and said, "I hope this isn't going where I think it's going, because if it is, it's exactly like Crimes and Misdemeanors - another Allan movie." I then wondered if Allan had run out of ideas and was just re-hashing his old films. Sure, it's set in a different place and has different characters, but really - if you've seen that movie, you've seen this one.
If you've never seen "Crimes and Misdemeanors", then this one is probably OK, more like 5 star than 3. Still, there is quite a lot of stilted dialog, and the sex scenes are awful. How do you ruin a sex scene with such good looking people? Well - it happened a lot in this movie.
I also found the directing quite poor. The framing and camera placement was fine, but the actors were better than they appeared in this movie. I've seen Scarlett Johansson in plenty of things, and she has always been better than we see her here.
Still, the overall story is interesting and you wonder what's going to happen. The pace is good and it doesn't get boring anywhere. Still - hardly a real reason to watch this movie.