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Match Point Reviews

2005

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For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very different kind of prize. .. Read more

Starring	Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Director	Woody Allen
Genres	Drama, Romance

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- Writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London to film this drama of a romantic entanglement starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily Mortimer. read more »
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  - 20
  After a middling ...
  
  After a middling career in pro tennis, Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, slinky and reserved) has found himself employed as a tennis pro at an English country club. ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Gideon Wellins
  - Manchester, England
  - 20 Jan 2006 at 12:55
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- - 0
  - 0
  I'd still take a Woody collection to my desert island
  
  Not a great Woody film. Though less successful its still head and shoulders above the best most others can offer. Scarlett the muse, like a sunbeam breaks into ... read more »
  
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- - RichPickings
  - 131 reviews
  - Leicester
  - 03 Feb 2012 at 16:06
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  - 0
  Slow but eventually speeds up
  
  Felt the lead actor wasn't very believable - seemed to only have one mood. Film felt long and slow and then the interesting bits at the end were over too ... read more »
  
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- - Brian Stapleton
  - Beckenham,Kent
  - 24 Jan 2012 at 09:50
- - 0
  - 0
  An American stereotype of London
  
  Americans can't do British accents, Americans don't get British culture. There are so many little things that annoy & lazy poorly researched pieces ... read more »
  
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- - Pnr1977
  - 6 reviews
  - 04 Jan 2012 at 11:31
- - 0
  - 0
  Love all - no rallies, no breaks of serve, nothing
  
  Match Point is about some rather random, mediocre and dull lives – so much for me to feel familiar with in a way at least. Again Allen seems to be ... read more »
  
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- - MikeyMouse
  - 37 reviews
  - West Drayton
  - 25 Sep 2011 at 00:39
- - 0
  - 0
  Spin City - an unusual & refreshing Woody Allen movie
  
  I thoroughly enjoyed this film because of its twists and turns and unexpected ending. The acting was excellent all round. It was lovely to see English society ... read more »
  
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- 1014238
- - MelissaMarabamma
  - 120 reviews
  - South Coast UK
  - 07 Jul 2011 at 15:33
- - 0
  - 2
  awful acting
  
  Rubbish, twoddle, awful, terrible, Johnathon Rhys meyers is so gorgoues and loved him in August Rush, but this was just awful story, acting the whole thing such... read more »
  
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- 997081
- - a customer
  - 25 May 2011 at 23:31
- - 2
  - 0
  Out in straight sets
  
  Woody Allen’s first British set film is a laughably bad thriller that verges on a London tourist board promo for most of its running time. The central ... read more »
  
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  - Daniel Pollard
  - Manchester, England
  - 30 Apr 2011 at 20:12
- - 1
  - 0
  Dark and Absorbing
  
  I got this film not really knowing what to expect. Having not seen much Woody Allen before and generally being given a lot of stick for this by self stylised ... read more »
  
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- 963429
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  - TheLazer
  - 7 reviews
  - UK
  - 12 Feb 2011 at 20:08
- - 1
  - 0
  Stylised P.G Woodhouse
  
  Great story, Scarlet Johansson is excellent & the whole sense of the film was like stylised a P.G Woodhouse novel.The change of pace at the end of the film ... read more »
  
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- - BenMoorhouse
  - 18 reviews
  - Harrogate
  - 23 Dec 2010 at 16:36
- - 0
  - 0
  Tosh but at least English tosh.
  
  If the coppers were this poor in reality no one would ever get banged up for anything. Some fair scenery but generally not a great view.
  
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- - Pearson
  - 74 reviews
  - Malvern Wells
  - 11 Dec 2010 at 14:59
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- - 60
  - 20
  After a middling ...
  
  After a middling career in pro tennis, Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, slinky and reserved) has found himself employed as a tennis pro at an English country club. ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 196437
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Gideon Wellins
  - Manchester, England
  - 20 Jan 2006 at 12:55
- - 26
  - 11
  Awful
  
  I've always loved Woody Allen films and also fell for the reviewers' hype. But this was just truly awful. Bad everything. I have to wonder if Woody ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - london england
  - 10 Jan 2006 at 19:57
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  - 8
  Implausable but watchable
  
  Tennis coaches do not get set up in major City investment houses with their own chauffeurs even if they are going out with the Chairman's daughter. I don&#... read more »
  
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- - Greenlove
  - London
  - 17 Jan 2006 at 12:41
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  - 10
  It's A Woody Allen?
  
  Anyone would have a hard time noticing that it's actually directed by Woody Allen, it's totaly different, and not really in a good way. It could have ... read more »
  
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- - butters787
  - 34 reviews
  - Salford
  - 14 Jan 2006 at 16:09
- - 18
  - 8
  This is a TERRIBLE film
  
  I saw this in the cinema, and therefore had to restrain myself from groaning too loudly, and possibly yelling at the screen. People around me were laughing at ... read more »
  
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- - KatGirl
  - Gloucestershire
  - 17 May 2006 at 13:18
- - 16
  - 8
  Pretty Vacant
  
  A tedious, clunking cliche of a film. It boasts two very attractive leads in Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson, but the complete lack of any chemistry... read more »
  
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- - KitKat
  - North London
  - 15 Jan 2006 at 00:02
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  - 9
  What on earth was Woody thinking?
  
  I really don't think I can put into words how utterly disappointing this film was! From the second it started I had the feeling I would dislike it...and I ... read more »
  
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- - Mullins
  - Bromley
  - 16 May 2006 at 13:20
- - 9
  - 1
  The innocent are sometimes slain to make way for grander schemes.
  
  In a recent interview, Woody Allen, remarked that, “All that rubbish they tell you about getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years —... read more »
  
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- - nated23
  - 175 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 09 Jul 2007 at 16:13
- - 9
  - 3
  Love All ..
  
  I have to disagree with a lot of the other reviewers here, and say that I LOVED THIS MOVIE!
  
  For the first time in his long career, writer-director ... read more »
  
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- - Paul Jay
  - London, England
  - 13 Aug 2006 at 10:53
- - 10
  - 7
  Very poor, a real plodder...
  
  Poorly developed plot and very slowly paced drama. It's only redeeming feature is that the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson is in it.
  
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- - a customer
  - Lincolnshire.
  - 13 May 2006 at 11:21

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Critics' reviews
- Writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London to film this drama of a romantic entanglement starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily Mortimer. read more »
- LOVEFiLM Review
  - Tom Charity
  - LOVEFiLM
- An often riveting drama set in London amid the lives of the rich and cultured -- highlighted by an operatic score. And it's proof that Allen, who many have dismissed with his last few forgettable films, is still a filmmaking force
- 40559
- - USA Today
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- It pretty much keeps its pulse steady, its blood cold and its nerves tamped down which, combined with cinematographer Remi Adefarasin's architectural Hitchcockian flourishes, lends a queasy, cool air to the proceedings
- 40556
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- There was a time when Woody Allenâs dismissals of his own work as âmediocreâ and âmiserableâ translated as... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
- It's heart-poundingly tense, genuinely erotic and philosophically brutal in its closing pronouncement...
- 40558
- - Uncut
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- Woody Allen's best in years... Ice cold and pitch black...
- 40557
- - New York Times
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25

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  For the first time in his long career, writer-director Woody Allen takes his cast and crew to London, and the European location breathes new life into the normally Manhattan-centric auteur. Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a former pro on the world tennis circuit, with eyes set on a very ...