Review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) by Asif K — 02 Dec 2010

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger: Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.

I rated NOT INTERESTED after I saw all the negative reviews and there was a buzz of this movie being cold and not to expect any nominations or winning in any festivals or awards ceremonies. but come on its Woody Allen, this movie was available so without wasting any time or something I saw this movie. Well though I am not disappointed much, just little from Woody Allen as he is far more talented and much more capable of making much good movies from this. I think this movie was BELOW AVERAGE if not completely a disaster, performances and the characters saves it not the whole movie. it is definitely not the best movie of Woody Allen. this movie could have been much better.

Gemma Jones was awsome, just brilliant performance, she plays Naomi's strange mother. Anthony Hopkins was brilliant again these two older cast members were amazing and natural in their roles. loved them. Naomi was ok in the movie and so was Bandeas, who is not much in this movie. Josh Brolin was above average in the movie, good performance by him and I loved his character. freida Pinto was looking gorgeous, she was ok too. so all in all good performances if not excellent.

This movie was very short too. and some of the characters were focused much so there was actually not enough screen presence for much of the other cast of this good ensemble cast. screenplay had some flaws too or it had the ability of being a god movie. story was good. this relationship comedy could have been a good movie but it turns out to be a below average ensemble cast comedy. somehow nice and little bit interesting to watch. not gonna recommend to anyone who doesn't see Woody Allen's, but if you are a fan of him you won't wanna miss it forget if it is not an excellent movie.