I've never been so bored and irritated at any one time, as when I was watching this film, how it was nominated for golden globes is completely beyond me. Rhys-Myers plays Chris, an Irish boy who has come over to England to teach tennis, and picked up a painfully bad accent in the process. He struggles to keep speaking in the 'upper-class' accent that he's been asked to use, and this makes his character even more unbelievable. Chris coaches a guy, Tom, for one lesson, they become best friends and he marries the guy's sister, whilst sleeping with his fiancé. He sounds like a jerk doesn't he? Yes, well Tom is cheating on his fiancé (Scarlet J) and has ...  Read the complete review

Woddy Allen is an amazing writer, and in this film you can see why. It follows the life of a Tennis pro, who became bored and decided to get out and went on to teach the sport at a London country club. This is where he meets his new best friend, his to wife to be, and the woman he has an affair with. Its all rather clever, with some great performances. However i found that the main character is one, who i did not like what so ever. He goes about having this affair in the most pathetic of ways, promising that he'll leave his wife everyday. Scarlet Johanson who plays the women he has an affair with is equally annoying believing all his lies. This ...  Read the complete review

'Match Point' was written and directed by Woody Allen (who does not feature here as an actor) and first released in 2005. The film is set in and around London and stars, amongst others, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Goode, and Brian Cox. Match Point is a straight drama about obsession, guilt, class, and crimes, but most of all luck. At 124 minutes, this is longer than Allen's usual fare and has a lot of parallels with 1989's Crimes and Misdemenours, another Allen film full of existential angst and ruminations on goodness and luck in a morally ambiguous universe. Like Crimes and Misdemenours, Match Point is heavily inspired by Crime and  Read the complete review

Match Point, directed by Woody Allen, is dripping in passion and tension. The film, which is perhaps not widely-known but achieved critical acclaim through its nomination for four Golden Globe awards, is built on the premise of a ball hitting the top of the net in a game of tennis. For a split second it can fall either side. In that split second your fate as a winner or loser is held in the balance. Match Point follows Chris, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as he rises up in society through his role as a tennis coach. He is taken over by ambition and finds himself not only bagging a rich wife but lusting after a struggling American actress who just ...  Read the complete review

I´m shocked that this film has got 4 out of 5 on this site, I accept that the cast is pretty awesome and the story itself is very watchable, but the dialogue is awful, absolutely cringemakingly bad. The story follows Chris (Rhys Meyers) a former Tennis pro seeking new work, he makes friends with Tom Hewitt (Matthew Goode) and through him meets Tom´s sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer), Chloe is from rich stock and Tom takes advantage of her feelings for him to build a relationship, meanwhile Chris falls for Nola (Scarlett Johannson) the American actress girlfriend of Tom. Chris and Tom carry on an affair and their relationship puts Chris´opportunities to be ...  Read the complete review