Didn't like it

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2006)

Sadly I found this movie particularly dull. The first thing that comes to mind is the dialog because it lacked wit. One way to judge clever dialog is that it makes you feel, and many times makes you laugh. This movie didn't do either of those things and actually I think my conversations are more interesting than the ones in that script. Believe me that is not compliment. But my main problem is that the main character isn't interesting. Until he does his deed towards the end of the movie, he doesn't do anything challenging or make any decision. All great characters from any great story always make decisions based on their situation. Our guy in Matchpoint never does that and just lets life happen to him without making his own choices. To me that seems weak and counterproductive to making an interesting person. Oh, one last thing. This is a small point. For the story to work the way it did, the main character and his lover meet (or at least run into each other) 3 times in London. Now I didn't do the math but I think the population of London is at least 10 million people. What are the chances that that would happen. Think of it this way, how often do you run into your neighbor who lives 5 houses down the block and then expand those chances by 10 million. Since the theme in this movie is luck I think our characters would have been better off playin the lotto.