Scoop

Director: Woody Allen
(2006)

This was not one of the better of Woody Allen's films like Match Point, which really wasn't all that good within itself. Allen seems to have found a muse in Scarlett Johanssen, though, who just so happens to be my favorite actress. In Scoop, however, I was less than impressed with her as a matter of fact I found her just as annoying as Woody Allen's character Sid Waterman. Instead of playing the sultry, vixen type character her beauty and grace destine her to play, she plays a nosey, overly ambitious college student which got a little annoying after awhile. And those ridiculous glasses! What a way to try to understate her allure!

The film was actually quite boring as well, and Allen's attempt at humorizing the bridge between the living and the dead was ill conceived. I still can't imagine why a journalist with such a fulfilling afterlife journey ahead of him would want to come back from the dead to an inexperienced college journalist and persuade her to write a story about a tarot card killer, whom she inevitably falls in love with. I mean, if there were going to be some sort of twist in the "comystery" then of course the first thing I would suspect is a tryst between the college girl reporter and the alleged serial killer. Especially when the actor playing the character is the smooth and debonair Hugh Jackman, Its so incredibly predictable!

I wanted the story to be more developed than it was but I suppose, since I'm so hard to please when it comes to film, that I hope for that in every film I view. More background to the character, more dialogue, more plot twists. More. More. More. The ending also left much to be desired, the only surprise was the the death of Sid Waterman. hm.