Woody get's back to making boring and meaningless films

Rating: 3/10 (9 February 2009)

I was interested to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen had made such a good film previously with Scarlett Johansson and I was hoping to see same level of excellence that I experienced in Match Point. All my expectations were crushed when I saw this meaningless and empty drama about stereotypical people and their boringly predictable relationships.
Actors were fine - all of them. Problem is in the script. Allen seems to write movies as someone writes TV-series. Easily sketched empty characters in an exotic location experiencing some tacky romance - and the torture ends only when the main characters has been "in love" (had sex) at least with two other characters. Allen almost always writes love triangle and most times fails to express some deeper meaning through the life of main character. Some writer from the 'Bold and the Beautiful' could have made the script for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Woody Allen makes a film in a year - for some incomprehensible reason. He's making films on a conveyor belt and that is reflected to the quality of those films. I hope he would stop for a while and concentrate more on the quality of the script.