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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
This Week's Hot Video: 'Match Point'
Woody Allen's spiritual remake of "A Place in the Sun" -- reset in London, and given a boldly absurdist spin -- is an absorbing, surprising psychological thriller that is the 70-year-old writer-director's best film in a decade.
It is an unpredictable, unusual and consistently engrossing drama whose young-man-on-the-make hero Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish ex-tennis pro who signs on as an instructor at an exclusive London club, becomes involved with wealthy Chloe (Emily Mortimer), whose business-mogul father seems eager to have him as a son-in-law. But he also has a lustful obsession with Nola (Scarlett Johansson), the fiancee of Chloe's brother. Wilton works his way into a dark corner -- much darker than we expect -- until Allen maneuvers the film to a surprise ending.
As is usual with Allen's films, the DVD comes without any extras. 125 minutes. Rated R for some sexuality. (William Arnold)
GRADE: A
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