One of the worst films I have ever had to suffer

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2006)

I have just seen this film on a plane. I did not read the credits at the time and had no idea who wrote or directed it so as soon as I got home I looked it up here. I was amazed to find that it was a Woody Allen film.
Quite simply it was appallingly bad. The plot was Mills and Boon joke and totally predictable, the dialogue was stilted and unnatural. The acting was generally of a standard I would expect at the local amateur dramatic club. (Except James Nesbit who was as good as ever but only had a tiny part). I almost laughed out loud when one character called the Chris Wilton 'Irish' when the best the actor could manage was an upper class English twit accent.
A comment on the plot: How believable is it that a supposedly working class Irish tennis coach (with an unlikely love of Opera) with no qualifications, would be given a job in a large company 'In the City' and almost immediately be raised to a level where he has a chauffeur driven car at his beck and call, and a personal secretary. I know that he was the boyfriend of the boss's daughter but no boss got as rich as the one in this film by filling his company with his daughter's boyfriend who have no business experience.
Frankly I am amazed that this film ever managed to find funding, no doubt the Woody Allen name carried it through that process, it didn't however carry it much further.