Let's be honest about this film!

Rating: 1/10 (4 May 2007)

Ugh! This film was awful! The acting was awful (and Scarlett was so good in Girl with a Pearl Earring), photography was awful, editing was awful, the plot was awful! I kept waiting and waiting for the film to be over. I tried watching it once before and thought that, perhaps, I just wasn't in the mood. I even yelled at the TV, "MOVE!" It was SOOOOOOO SLOOOOWWWWW. I tried the 2nd time and suffered through it just waiting for SOMETHING to happen.
Possible spoiler (as if watching this rotten tripe wasn't spoil enough): All the wrong things happened. You know he's not going to go to a bridge and throw jewelry in the water in broad daylight. They could check phone records, and you certainly know that the detectives are going to ask the co-worker questions. She is most certainly going to tell them that Nola received a phone call right before she left work.
When Nola confronted his conscience she said something about holes in his plans. Maybe this was Woody Allen's way of saying that there were plenty of holes in his plot.
Wait! There was one good thing about the movie - the set for La Traviata. It was a delicious study in art deco.
Wish I could sue someone and get back my 2 hours of life that were wasted. It felt like two years!
Just proves to me over and over again that the "critics" are just glorified "yes" men. The ONLY reason that they found any credibility in this movie is because a NAME directed it. If Joe Blow had directed it, they would have shredded him.