Match Point (2005)
Match Point is a film steeped in ambiguity, and how luck has more to do with our success then we would like to believe. Woody Allen directs this interesting crime melodrama that feels like a through back to those noirs of the 40's & 50's. The plot is simple: "At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law". Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Chris Wilton a former tennis pro. At first we don't know whether Meyer's character is a man who is a con artist or a man who truly does like the finer points of life. His love for opera, and his fascination of Dostoevsky and his work seems a bit strange, but when he decides to commit murder you realize his cruel calculating demeanor is anything but false. Woody Allen does a superb job at immersing us into a place where murder will be gotten away with and with no consequence proving that sometimes the guilty don't pay for th...