UK/USA/France
Feature Film
Writer/Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Composer: Philip Glass
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Tom Wilkinson, John Benfield, Phil Davis
Allen’s talky thriller, an exploration of the consequences of a pair of brothers’ decision to murder a colleague of their uncle for monetary gain, is fatally hamstrung by Allen’s dialogue fitting ill with his working class characters' mouths, and, not the least, by Farrell’s Australian/South African sounding efforts. Iain Stott
Feature Film
Writer/Director: Woody Allen
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Composer: Philip Glass
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Tom Wilkinson, John Benfield, Phil Davis
Allen’s talky thriller, an exploration of the consequences of a pair of brothers’ decision to murder a colleague of their uncle for monetary gain, is fatally hamstrung by Allen’s dialogue fitting ill with his working class characters' mouths, and, not the least, by Farrell’s Australian/South African sounding efforts. Iain Stott
