An average movie

Since I only heard bad things about this flick, I really had some rather low expectations but since I have been faithfully following Woody Allen for almost 20 years, I still wanted to check it out. Eventually, I thought it was not that bad after at all. Indeed, it was the 2nd time Scarlett Johansson was working with Woody Allen, I particularly enjoyed her performance and I would even go as far as saying that she gave here one of her best performances. Together with Woody Allen, they really made a rather unexpected but hilarious duo. Unfortunately, even though I enjoyed the first hour, in the last half 30 minutes, the movie started to focus on some really underwhelming detective story. It was pretty obvious that Allen didn't care much about this aspect of the story as it was rather weak and nothing mind-blowing. At the end of the day, it is a perfect example about how Woody Allen‘s work ethic is rather counter-productive. Indeed, every single year, he comes up with a new movie and it is not surprising to see a movie like this one with a strong 1st half and a really weak 2nd half. If he would have spend 3 or 4 years on this production, it could have been much better. Still, an average Allen flick is always better than most of the movies I see and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Allen's work.

6/10