20. Match
Point – As a Woody Allen agnostic, I cannot comment on where this stands in
his catalogue. On its own, I find it brilliant, scripted well above most
everything on the market. Jonathan Rhys Myers seems like he should be getting
Jude Law’s roles, as he’s much more talented than him. Amongst the people he’s
also much more talented than: Scarlett Johanssen. She ruins the classic kiss in
the rainy field by bringing to it all the passion of soggy cardboard. To be
fair though, Myers kind of ruins the romanticism of the scene too by bluntly
putting his hand up in that ass, center screen. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVjfW-P5yZY) Overall, casting
her as a struggling actress cruelly manipulated by a man she’s more attracted to
than vice versa might have been unfair to her career on Allen’s part – it serves
to highlight that as an actress she’s not that good and as a pin-up, maybe she’s
not that hot? I mean, she’s hot, but seemlingly the kind that won’t age well. But
Match Point will always be timeless.
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