I'd still take a Woody collection to my desert island
Match Point review
By
RichPickings from 'kin Bruges
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3rd February 2012
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 our consciousness with her dazzling beauty and can seemingly do no wrong, such is her luminescence. If the film is to rest on her shoulders though, that it isn't quite enough. Some of the other casting is quite parochial and clunky and the views of London tend to diminish next to his other cherished city landscapes. But that is okay, this is not those films. It does seem to be, something of a domestic pot boiler, an overstretched thriller or a half baked mystery. There is no mystery of note and its not that thrilling. Still, Allan's take on things is so special that even when it underachieves, its still quirky and noticeable. That's good. Strangely some scenes are pretty enough, or even that powerful, that they stay with you. Not unrewarding. Such is genius. Who knew?!
