Match Point

[Brian in Mesa]

Match Point

Release Date: December 28, 2005 (NY, LA; wide release: January 20)
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Director: Woody Allen
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Genre: Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for some sexuality)
Website: Match Point

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton

Plot Summary: Scarlett Johansson ("The Island"), Jonathan Rhys-Meyers ("Bend It Like Beckham"), Emily Mortimer ("Lovely & Amazing"), Matthew Goode ("Chasing Liberty"), Brian Cox ("The Bourne Identity,", "The Bourne Supremacy") and Penelope Wilton ("Iris," "Calendar Girls") star in "Match Point," a new dramatic thriller from writer/director Woody Allen.

"Match Point" is a drama about ambition, the seduction of wealth, love, and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in events, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is.

Written and directed by Academy Award® winner Woody Allen ("Annie Hall," "Hannah and Her Sisters"), "Match Point" represents a departure for the native New Yorker, the majority of whose films lovingly depict New York and—not always so lovingly—New Yorkers. Crossing the Atlantic for the first time in his film career, Allen set "Match Point" in London, where it was also filmed.

 

[Ollie]

Saw it 3 weeks ago, an instant-classic Woody Allen movie, full of irony... maybe his best one since the early 90's.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Saw it 3 weeks ago, an instant-classic Woody Allen movie, full of irony... maybe his best one since the early 90's.

You already saw it?

Mike

 

[Ollie]

Oh yeah, it'd been released late october out there (in France) like all Allen's movies (approximatively 1,2 million viewers in theaters 'til now, so it's quite succesful).

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Saw this finally, loved it...kind of slow probably for some, but I thought it was great.

Lots of great little insights, plus I felt some of it was a little Hitchcock-ian at times.

There were some very unexpected things that happened in it, and the end was great.

Mike

 

[Bada0Bing]

I just watched it. I always try to stay away from movie previews because I don’t want to hear anything about the movie before I see it. I thought this was going to be about tennis!

Obviously I was wrong and I was pleasantly surprised, as the story kept getting better and better as Chris kept digging himself a deeper hole. The ending was brilliant. I knew that “luck” was going to be involved but I wasn’t sure exactly how.

 

[Shane]

Booring. A very typical Woody Allen movie. Havent seen a film of his I liked yet.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Booring. A very typical Woody Allen movie. Havent seen a film of his I liked yet.

You don't appreciate fine art

 

[Shane]

You don't appreciate fine art

If thats fine art Im thrilled that I dont appreciate it

 

[Mike Olbinski]

If thats fine art Im thrilled that I dont appreciate it

By art, I meant Scarlett Johanson...

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[Shane]

By art, I meant Scarlett Johanson...

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Well in that case

 

[thirty-two]

Saw this movie tonight.

The lead actor was delicious to look at, and I am quickly starting to adore Scarlett.

I was really surprised by what happened towards the end, it kind of came out of left field, personally. I knew luck would play a role somehow in the movie, but I definitely didn't expect it in the way it played out.

Honestly, I probably wont watch this movie again - knowing what happens at the end kind of ruins the first parts of the movie for me.

 

[FArting]

Saw this movie this afternoon good movie.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Booring. A very typical Woody Allen movie. Havent seen a film of his I liked yet.

a typical woody allen movie? you haven't seen his early stuff have you? Rent "What's Up Tiger Lilly", Bananas and Sleeper. I think those are more your style than his films in the last decade.

especially Tiger Lilly. Freaking brilliant comedy.

 

[Chaplin]

Booring. A very typical Woody Allen movie. Havent seen a film of his I liked yet.

Just about every movie he did in the first 20 years of his career was great. Cheese mentioned Tiger Lily, Bananas and Sleeper, which IMO is the closest anyone has gotten to the kind of comedy seen in the silent era with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

Then you get Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, etc. The more "adult" comedy. Annie Hall is brilliant. The last film of this period, Manhattan Murder Mystery, is the movie that actually turned me on to Woody Allen. It's pretty much a movie showing what the couple in Annie Hall would be like if they actually got married.

Ironically, nowadays it's his dramatic work that is his best stuff and his comedies are the ones that are lacking. Back in the day it was the opposite.

 

[Gaddabout]

Ironically, nowadays it's his dramatic work that is his best stuff and his comedies are the ones that are lacking. Back in the day it was the opposite.

I imagine it's hard for Allen to find any real fodder in the sexual culture of today. Being awkwardly sexually exploitative isn't funny anymore because we've crossed all those boundaries and then some. So it doesn't surprise me that his dramas find the audience more often.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Just about every movie he did in the first 20 years of his career was great. Cheese mentioned Tiger Lily, Bananas and Sleeper, which IMO is the closest anyone has gotten to the kind of comedy seen in the silent era with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

Then you get Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, etc. The more "adult" comedy. Annie Hall is brilliant. The last film of this period, Manhattan Murder Mystery, is the movie that actually turned me on to Woody Allen. It's pretty much a movie showing what the couple in Annie Hall would be like if they actually got married.

Ironically, nowadays it's his dramatic work that is his best stuff and his comedies are the ones that are lacking. Back in the day it was the opposite.

I don't know why, but I can just never get into Manhattan. I've tried like 4 different times (even a couple times right after my back surgery when I was dying to watch anything that wasn't the latetst new release at Blockbuster) and it just won't take.

Annie Hall is great, but I liked Hanna and Her Sisters more. Same with Purple Rose of Cairo. Hell, even Bullets Over Broadway was really entertaining.