Match Point

Spoiler's galore, so please beware:

Here's a choice line, courtesy of imdb: "The innocent are sometimes slain to make way for grander schemes. You were collateral damage."

Just a few questions: Wouldn't an autopsy have revealed that the Nola Rice character (Scarlett Johansson) was pregnant, and wouldn't a paternity check have revealed the baby as Wilton's (Rhys Meyers)? Okay, okay - she was lying the whole time, and since there was no baby there wasn't any DNA either. But what about fingerprints in her apartment? What about all her screaming outside his house? What about the gun he used, to which he admitted having access? And why wouldn't the police have followed the criminal's explanation for his possession of the jewlery? Why didn't the third neighbor insist that something was wrong before he left the building? They broke the case, and then they just shut it down. Doesn't Woody Allen at least know about CSI? Basically, a moderate Nielsen share's worth of the television viewing audience could have broken this case.

All this is beside the real problem, which boils down to Rhys Meyers reading Crime and Punishment before going out and comitting a couple of Raskolnikov style murders himself. What's the point? That reading Doesteovsky turns you into a killer? Or is it that Sophocles does you in? Or is it being rich that makes you a murderer? Rich with a humble background? Given the way his life has imitated his art in the past, if I were Woody Allen, or Woody Allen's family, I'd be worried.

Yeah. Bloody Awful.