besherat I watched this movie now. It's good, but essentially nothing special. It was most surprising to me that I could never assume that this film has anything to do with Woody Allen. A completely different style, incompatible with him, his thoughts and eternal motifs such as debates about God and religion in general, life, and especially death. Particularly interesting is the soundtrack, it was nice to listen to the famous opera aria, above all "Una furtiva lacrima" aria from the opera "Love Beverage" by Gaetan Donizetti, which appears several times, and the recording is from the record of Enrico Caruso. The treatment of motives from the world literature "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoyevsky and "American Tragedy" by Theodore Drajzer, gave a certain stamp to the film, the acting of the main actors is good, but ... there is something that was not convincing me at all. Say again, it's a good movie, but I expected much more.

khalood_1010 By exactly the 115 minute of this film's runtime I already made up my mind this film was a four as I saw how boringly obvious the end was going to, but exactly two minutes before the end the FOUR turned to an EIGHT just suddenly! As simple as the end was, it also was a mind flipping! WATCH IT, Scarlet looked fantastic too ;)

Chameleoj Just finished watching this, and the plot gripped me all the way through from beginning to end. Sure there were things to dislike, the not-always accurate British accents, the at-times cheesy dialogue, with slightly too long stares into nothingness, but so much more to like! Matthew Goode and Emily Mortimer play very believable upper-class English characters, and the dialogue flows so naturally, you'd believe you were sitting right in the room with them and their family, listening to their conversations.In my opinion Woody Allen does a great job in making use of the theme of luck, mixed in with some tennis, offering a surprising twist at the end that might have you reconsidering the effect of luck on your own life afterwards. Despite a few minor flaws, a very enjoyable watch! 8/10

Alex Deleon ALLEN ENTERS NEW TERRITORY WITH "MATCH POINT"Viewed at 2005 San Sebastian Film Festival featuring centenary homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Though there were no films by Hitchcock on view, several films are in a way a homage to the master. "Match Point", the latest from Woody Allen is a vast departure from his usual form and is, in effect, a Hitchcockian suspense thriller filmed in London no less, with an entirely English cast except for a smashingly sexy Scarlett Johansson in a most uncharacteristic vamp role, as the sole American presence – (and what a presence she is!). At a turning point in his life, an unscrupulous social climbing former tennis pro falls for a scrumptuous femme-fatal type (Scarlett Jo) who happens to be dating his new best friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. Her blatant irresistibility forces him to tread a skittery fine line between acceptance or expulsion from the high society he has edged his way into -- like a tennis ball teetering on top of the net at a decisive win-or-lose "match point". Also the metaphor for which way the evidence will fall when he is a suspect in Scarlett's shocking but necessary murder. Young Scarlett really sets the celluloid aflame in this stylish shot out of Mr. Konigsberg's Twilight Zone, with sensitive support from Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the freaked-out lover-killer who in the end will go unpunished. Woody has strayed from comedy before with mixed results but this no-nonsense edge of the seat entry into typical Hitchcockian territory demonstrates his versatility as nothing before. The tennis background is perfectly employed to a breath-taking conclusion where a tennis ball teeters momentarily on the top of the net and can fall either way. Johansson, moreover, pulls out all the stops and shows she can act as well as just look gorgeous — and sexier than ever as a scheming heartless femme fatale. Hats off to both Woody and Scarlett for a perfectly realized neo Film Noir. Alfred would have loved it!An extra dessert for Opera fans; Since both leading men are opera lovers the musical score is made up entirely of opera excerpts with remastered Caruso recordings and oodles of Verdi arias commenting subtly on the proceedings of this amoral operatic film noir masterpiece.