Hailed as Woody Allen's best film in a decade — which sets a very low bar — and as a new direction in his work — which appears to boil down to the fact that it's set in London instead of New York — this thin chronicle of bad behavior among the rich and self-obsessed is painfully derivative, borrowing wholesale from Theodore Dreiser's
An American Tragedy and echoing Allen's own CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989). Affable second-string tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) knows there's no future for him in the game but can't figure out what to do instead when a string of lucky breaks conspire to change his life. Befriended by a private ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
124 mins