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Article: Fiendish delight: Woody Allen's 'Match Point' fascinating and clever
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 6, 2006
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One reason for the fascination of Woody Allen's "Match Point" is
that each and every character is rotten. 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. "I'd rather be lucky than good," Chris, the tennis pro
from Ireland, tells us as the movie opens, and we see a tennis ball
striking the net it is pure luck which side it falls on. Chris' own
good fortune depends on just such a lucky toss of a coin.
The movie, Allen's best since "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989),
involves a rich British family and two outsiders who hope to enter it
by using their sex appeal. ...