I would rather watch a bad Woody Allen movie than most box office hits.

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2006)

His films are usually remarkably well constructed, written, and directed, and I love how Allen as a director takes a back seat to his performers, letting them act them for the most part in the master shot, instead of interrupting the flow for the two shot, over the shoulder shots, and close-ups. Having said that, I'm very disappointed in "Match Point," because I have seen this very same Woody Allen movie before, except it was set in New York and was called "Crimes and Misdemeanors." Intead of a tennis pro who marries into a privileged family, it involved an already privileged, well established ophthalmologist who was a pillar of his community. Both stories follow a very similar path and even end pretty much the same way. Come on, Woody, don't you think it's time to take a break from the yearly film to write something fresh instead of recycling nearly twenty year old scripts? This can't be about money, so I have to ask: exactly how insecure are you?