Review of To Rome with Love (2012) by Esteban D — 27 Dec 2012
It has its moments. It's occasionally funny and has the occasional insight. Rome is captured beautifully and romantically as expected - with a hint of Ozymandias melancholia if you will. It is also well casted and acted.
Unfortunately it lacks the heart-warming charm and the hard-hittingly deep insights of the much older Woody Allen multi-story ensemble classics. Whilst it's not a bad movie, for new audiences it won't amount to too much more than a stock-standard romantic comedy, bordering on silly but swaying a little towards the intellectual side namely for some of the character's personality rather than the film's actual insights though.
For Woody Allen fans, the films we love still live on with the same character archetypes who are grappling the same existential questions in a vintage Woody Allen universe. For some reason this will never grow thin.
Luckily he manages to express this very well every few years. This year it's just a bit of a yawn and doesn't really work... but average Allen is still a delight, but that's probably because i'm biased.
This review of To Rome with Love (2012) was written by Esteban D on 27 Dec 2012.
To Rome with Love has generally received mixed reviews.
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