The actors are all good, but all unexceptional, although in most cases - especially Johansson's - this is because their characters are deliberately left as ciphers. The secondary theme of the film "luck is arbitrary" is hammered a little too hard, but by and large I accept it, and it's not like subtlety has ever really been Allen's greatest strength.
Besides, this is a melodrama at heart, as made clear by the wall-to-wall operatic soundtrack. Which reminds me of something. After the screening, one of my companions asked how it felt to personally be the entirety of a film's target audience.
Pretty damn good, actually. Categories: british cinema , thrillers , top 10 , woody allen. Munich Breakfast on Pluto View on Twitter. Alternate Ending Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.
On a certain level, it would offer the same kind of titillation to a middle-class audience as a Sidney Sheldon or Jacqueline Susann novel. Both films were available to me as free screeners fortunately. The explanation for this is about as mercenary as the characters in the film.
After Chris gets Nola pregnant, she threatens to reveal their affair to his wife unless he agrees to leave her. A desperate Chris accosts her in her apartment building, shoots her and her elderly neighbor dead with a shotgun and disguises the murders as a drug robbery.
When he eventually throws the spoils of the robbery into the Thames to cover his tracks, a wedding ring bounces off the railing and fails to fall into the water. It is retrieved by a junky thief who is then shot dead in a robbery attempt. If the message of the film is not that crime pays, it is certainly that luck matters more than anything.
The opening of the film shows a tennis ball bouncing back--unluckily--into the court of the server, just as the ring bounces--luckily--onto a sidewalk where the junky thief can retrieve it. Everyone wants to think that they, you know, control their lives, or at least have some control. Labelling Match Point as a drama-thriller or a psychological thriller is a bit too much. Match Point IMDb 7. At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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Check out our FAQ! Match Point. Match Point takes place in England. Match Point Archery. One reason for the fascination of Woody Allen's "Match Point" is that each and every character is rotten. April seine Premiere in Italien und kam am The first race of the day was without any doubt the tightest match … This is a thriller not about good versus evil, but about various species of evil engaged in a struggle for survival of the fittest -- or, as the movie makes clear, the luckiest.
Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would take him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.
August im Verleih von Tobis Film in die deutschen Kinos. Match Point Magazine Shipping A for-profit zine modeled like a mock issue of a sports magazine. Both Match Point and Allens later movie, Blue Jasmine deal with smart, people, who manage to attain the lives they dream of through deception and lies, when the the truth would serve them best.
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He is befriended by one of his students, wealthy Tom Hewett Matthew Goode. Chris starts to date Tom's sister, Chloe Hewett Emily Mortimer , a girl-next-door type who is immediately attracted to Chris. Chloe quickly knows she wants to marry Chris, and through her businessman father, Alec Hewett Brian Cox , tries to help Chris and their future by getting him an executive job in Alec's company. In his life with the Hewetts, Chris begins to enjoy the finer things in life.
Nola is vivacious, and she knows the effect she has on men, including Chris. Chris has to decide if he can give up what he has been able to achieve with Chloe and the Hewetts, or if the passion he feels for Nola is stronger than the finer things in life to which he is now accustomed.
He may go to any length to have his cake and eat it too. Chris Wilton Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor.
He meets Tom Hewett Matthew Goode , a well-off pretty boy.
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