Christina Reviews *Match Point*

       Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Chris Wilton, a young man who is engaged to one girl but enamored by his fiancee’s brother’s girlfriend (played by Scarlett Never Saw a Script I Could Refuse Johansson). And furthermore, did you know that Chris is the cousin of the milkman’s son's spinster piano teacher? Anyway, this is a Woody Allen movie so incestuous little love triangles are only to be expected.

          What begins as your classic Man Marries a Rich Girl and Then Takes a Mistress movie eventually becomes something much more sinister. This is no Bridges of Madison County. In Match Point, a woman does not get to have mind-blowing, adulterous sex with her lover and then just walk away from it all in the end.

         This movie does not have a sympathetic protagonist by any means.  Chris is an absolutely loathsome human being, and the very ending may come as a bit of a disappointment to many.  But you know, I liked this movie anyway.  I can't even explain why I liked it.  It was just so twisted, and I like twisted movies.


        I give this movie three stars.  It's Match Point, and it could go either way.



       ***Edited on 6/5/11***