Worth seeing

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2011)

It's not the funniest Woody Allen movie ever, that's for sure. But it's still kind of amazing that a director who's been around for so long can still put together a second-rate comedy that is better than most directors'best work. And the point of the film is interesting as well, especially coming for an older director who should be washed up and retired by now, that one can't go backward to a time when things were supposedly better...as the dough nuts holes who lead the Tea Party seem to think. Even though from a mathematical standpoint time doesn't have a direction, in reality time does have a direction. We can argue that time is going forward to the future or around in circles. But there's no need to revisit the past between the past is never really gone, it continue to exist along with the present and the future. And although Owen Wilson does a good job with the lead character, Corey Stoll does a great job as Hemingway.