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...Scarlett Johannson: The movies' current reigning hottie, she seduced Jonathan Rhys-Meyers away from Emily Mortimer in Match Point, and would give straight male viewers a reason to tune in on Oscar night...
...radically departing from his typical style Allen accentuates the best elements of his work. The beautiful drama notably lacks Allen’s neuroticisms, self-deprecating humor, and, thankfully, the characteristic on-screen appearance by the aging director himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself from the plot, but the native New Yorker has also moved his setting from his usual Manhattan streets...
...comedy.”“MATCH POINT” SET “Match Point” is, on the other hand, a straight drama; not a comedy with moments of heartbreak, not a drama sprinkled with comic relief. Faded tennis pro Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) charms his way into the good graces of the wealthy Hewett family and settles into a comfortable marriage with Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer). Complicating the equation is his brother in-law’s fiancée, Nola, with whom Chris first exchanges some rain-soaked afternoon delight, with subsequent forays...
Slick and pretty, Chris Wilton (Rhys-Meyers) is an ex--tennis pro with the schemer's gift of diffident charm: he seems to need so little that the upper class lavishes its largesse on him. What he wants is to be rich, so he weds Chloe (Mortimer), an heiress. But he also loves danger, as incarnated by a fellow outsider, luscious Nola (Johansson). "What I have is sex," she observes. "No one's ever asked for their money back...
...make, a femme fatale worth killing for, an inconvenient pregnancy, a secret diary. By relocating his milieu to England, Allen has an ideal setting for class animosity and intrigue in the lightly lethal spirit of Kind Hearts and Coronets. There's sultry chemistry between the leads: Rhys-Meyers, who has the pouty sensuality of a Jude Law left out to spoil, and Johansson, with the humid allure of a classic noir blond. When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back...