Trying to be fascinated, but I am hardly succeeding...

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2003)

Great Woody Allen had lot of masterworks and many flops... And this one, I don't know where to put...
I am Woody Allen's great admirer (more then a fan). As well, I am big admirer of 30's jazz music... And big Fan of Django!!! So, looking from this point of view, the movie had all predispositions to blast me off of my feet! Somehow, it didn't...
Although the story is great (so vivid and real, that I was sure that Emmet way a real character, although, I was very confused that I've never heard of him - since I am pretty informed of most of the Artist of that era. Still, most of the movie (especially after "documentary", testimonial parts) I was sure Emmet was a real guy... I spent some time on internet after movie, trying to find something about him... Until I visited PROImdb and found out in these reviews, that Emmet was fictional character. Make's me almost sorry:)!
Apart from that, S. Penn and S. Morthon (mute girl) builded great characters, but here comes the problem - Great story, great actors and very often plot gets into very boring sequences. How and why, I am not sure!?!
Uma Thurman - hm, character that was not that developed - it wasn't Woody's film, she probably wouldn't even read the script!
Woody directed it little bit more "anonymously" than his other stuff (If I didn't know it was his film, I couldn't recognize his "handwriting"..) Although there are some of his trademarks (those long shots,i.e., whole scenes made of one or two of them.
Photography is somehow much more vivid then Allen's usually (with warm and bluriesh colors), but, ok, it's history-era movie...
Well, I don't even know why I went on writing this review - I usually don't do this. This is my very first review on IMDB since many years...
Maybe because I am more confused with "what to think" that ever before...
However; maybe that was Woody's intention!:)