Match Point

Some folks have told me that these movie reviews are boring, that I should do more sarcasm stuff. I'll try but did just watch this movie.

Match Point is crime drama directed by Woody Allen and released in 2005. The movie is rated R for some sexuality. The movie length is 2 hours 4 minutes. Starting as a story about an ambitious tennis professional, the plot quickly moves being about the life is a social climber that succumbs to lust and murders to escape the consequences.

The actors are......

• Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Chris Wilton the ambitious tennis pro.
• Matthew Goode as Tom Hewett the friend made at the tennis club and avenue for Chris's social leap. I've noticed in recent trailers on television that this actor has a prominent part in the upcoming movie Brideshead Revisited.
• Brian Cox as Alec Hewett patriarch of the entitled English family and later benefactor of Chris's career. It was nice to see Cox in this roll, so many times he plays the spy master in action movies.
• Penelope Wilton as Eleanore Hewett the snobby matriarch.
• Emily Mortimer as Cloe Hewett sister of Tom and bride of Chris Wilton.
• Scarlett Johansson as Nola Rice the American actress, initial fiance of Tom and object of Chris Wilton's passion. Nola says it well in the movie, her sister is classically beautiful, she is simply sexual. I am not sure why I never connected Johansson to Marilyn Monroe before, it may apt, both exude sexuality, though I think Johansson is a much better actress.

I enjoyed the movie, a Hitchcock type plot that uniquely ties luck in life's mundane incidents to the everlasting. A departure for Woody Allen and a positive one at that. Score 31 of 50.

• Character development 8 of 10.
• Writing 7 of 10.
• Photography 8 of 10.
• Acting 8 of 10.
• Concept 7 of 10.