Run, don't walk to see this film

Rating: 10/10 (11 July 2012)

If you are looking for a highly entertaining, tears-producing funny diversion for a couple of hours, Run!, don't walk to your nearest theater. It is a profound mystery to me what might have been wrong, in the reviewer's lives on the day they wrote their piece, for them to have written so negatively, or at best so begrudging with their faintest of praise. Alec Baldwin, as a modern Greek chorus (used previously by Allen), is perfectly cast as the jaded but wise Cassandra. And Roberto Benigni again proves his Oscar-worthiness in his role of Everyman-Nobody. One just can't ask for a more enjoyable movie experience. This is certainly another instance where reviewers' dyspeptic pieces can be safely ignored.