Boring, pointless...it cannot be the real Allen

Rating: 4/10 (9 September 2008)

Oh no. Woody Allen is sliding down, down and down. The film is a poor effort and is full of so many mistakes and goofs. It gives the impression it was made very fast and with no real interest. The story itself is not original and it's all about young rich Americans coming to the old country just to search for themselves (a story told so many times by so many). And mostly there 's no interest at all for Spanish culture, history and society. Barcelona becomes a small fantasy world. While this vision - a world whose borders are defined by the status of a middle class on the verge of extinction - worked perfectly in his early masterpieces of the seventies and eighties, here becomes flat, boring and mostly annoying. This can't be the real Allen! When is he coming back to tell the wonderful stories with which he has fascinated everybody? I want him back!