Cassandra’s Dream

March 18, 2010

Cassandra’s Dream

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2010 I left the screening room in a sad mood. I’d never seen a Woody Allen movie I didn’t like—until I sat through this obvious, pseudo-noir, psycho-non-thriller. Two broke brothers (Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell), one aspiring to invest in a California resort, the other a mechanic and a […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2010

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I left the screening room in a sad mood. I’d never seen a Woody Allen movie I didn’t like—until I sat through this obvious, pseudo-noir, psycho-non-thriller. Two broke brothers (Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell), one aspiring to invest in a California resort, the other a mechanic and a losing gambler, agree to murder for money a guy who’s troubling their rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson), after which one of them becomes consumed by guilt, etc. Dostoyevsky Lite. It’s not universally awful, but kind of a hollow, working-class recycling of the director’s far more successful Match Point.