Manhattan Movie Download

3 / 10

Nice city, shame about the movie…
I’m going to bring down the IMDb average for this celebrated “modern masterpiece”, by dint of the simple fact that I think it’s highly overrated. Watching it through, I rarely smiled, let alone laughed and had zero interest in the Jewish (pseudo-) intellectual (g)literati portrayed or their tangled love lives.

I will also break cover and say that I found the insertion of a romance between a 42 year old male and a 17 year old girl fresh out of high – school spurious to say the least. Allen writes his usual “good to be Woody” part in bedding the afore-mentioned Mariel Hemingway and the grossly overrated Diane Keaton, cramming far too many words into the screenplay to the extent that I was willing the next George Gershwin composition onto the screen to distract my attention.

In fact only Gershwin’s sublime music and Gordon Willis’ justly venerated cinematography impart any relief from the tedium in this very boring navel-gazing exercise in psychobabble which says precisely nothing about the human condition, at least to me.

Unfunnily serious or seriously unfunny, either works for me…Read More