Woody Allen is getting old, and now Death is making its appearance in his last movie. A deceased sensation journalist fools death a few time to return from a rather rudimentary ship on the Styx river and pass a scoop to an attractive amateur journalist about the identity of a modern age Jack Ripper. The problem is that world still keeps an appearance of normality and nobody is ready to listen to the journalist acted by Scarlett Johansson excepting of course ... Woody Allen himself in the role of a magician.
So, what do we have here? A badly dressed Death character looking like an imitation of Bergman's. A magician on stage because it's magician movies season and who can do perfectly a failed magician whose tricks work better at the wrong time and place than Woody Allen? Scarlett Johansson acting in Renee Zellweger's role. And Allen himself, back and as narcissist as ever and even worse ... or better.
All this semi-nonsense is the best told story I have seen this year. Well, it's Woody Alllen, and he knows how to tell a story even when he has nothing to tell. The problem is that he really has nothing to tell in his last few movies, but he keeps doing them. It's minimalistic fun, to the enjoyment of the fans audiences, but I suspect the rest of the world hates them. How lucky I am to be his fan.
So, what do we have here? A badly dressed Death character looking like an imitation of Bergman's. A magician on stage because it's magician movies season and who can do perfectly a failed magician whose tricks work better at the wrong time and place than Woody Allen? Scarlett Johansson acting in Renee Zellweger's role. And Allen himself, back and as narcissist as ever and even worse ... or better.
All this semi-nonsense is the best told story I have seen this year. Well, it's Woody Alllen, and he knows how to tell a story even when he has nothing to tell. The problem is that he really has nothing to tell in his last few movies, but he keeps doing them. It's minimalistic fun, to the enjoyment of the fans audiences, but I suspect the rest of the world hates them. How lucky I am to be his fan.