Why you should and shouldn't see Match Point

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2011)

Chris (Rhys Meyers) seems then to be caught between passion (is this love?) for Nola (Johansson); and affection (or is this love?) for Chloe (Mortimer) and the comfort, safety and status of membership in the Hewett clan that comes with her. I say seems, because for most of the film we don't know what he's thinking. We see him with Chloe and with Nola, but we wonder what he feels as opposed to what he thinks each of them wants to hear.
Woody Allen is no stranger to navel-gazing characters trying to figure out what they really want, but Match Point is a departure for him: if there are other films by Allen that take dark turns into Hitchcockian deception and betrayal, I haven't seen them. It's well done--as clever as some of the rotund master's films--and executed with style.
Why you should see it: You like Hitchcock's films, but you've seen them all and Hitchcock died years ago, so you'll settle for Hitchcockian films.
Why you shouldn't see it: There's no nudity and no blood on camera. You have a rare neurological condition that causes you to urinate when you see Emily Mortimer.
--from my review at www.1man365movies.com