Review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) by Phil S — 17 Nov 2010

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this! It was a fun, playful and really painful tale about love, lust, fear, growing old and apart. It painted a picture of all the drama and plays our lifes entails that in the end mean absolutely nothing. That to us personally are the biggest things but nothing to the rest of the world.

All the actors did a great job, I especially liked Naomi Watts and Antonio Banderas, who even managed to surprise me a bit. Anthony Hopkins played the typical part of a man who thinks that the grass is greener on the other side but he had something special in his eyes, some sort of sadness, that appealed to me.

All the men in the movie, especially Josh Brolin's Roy are quite stupid, too slick and too driven by lust and fear, that made me wonder and my expression is that the same kind of tendency has been seen in Allen's other movies. Women's motives and reasons aren't always so clear which makes them more interesting in this movie too.

Very goodlooking movie that kept me entertained and interested the whole time.