Hayley Atwell,
Colin Farrell,
Sally Hawkins,
Ewan McGregor,
Tom Wilkinson
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Director Woody Allen continued to work in the dark mold of his 2005 thriller Match Point with this suspenseful tale of two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor) transformed into mortal enemies af... read more
Directed by: Woody Allen
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Keywords:
star,
woody allen,
ewan mcgregor,
colin farrell,
match point,
Woody Allen ,
Tom Wilkinson ,
Match Point ,
Colin Farrell
DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
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December 7, 2011I don't remember anything about this movie and I watched it about a month ago so I guess that's all that needs saying about it.
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February 25, 2010A definite Woody Allen dog, it's no wonder why this one was pronounced D.O.A. Perhaps the rustiest nail in the coffin is an abysmal performance by Colin Farrell, cast correctly but totally unfocused. I don't know if he was embroiled in the throes of his well-known cocaine habit o... read more
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November 18, 2009Woody Allen seems to be into tragedies lately. The bulk of the movie I loved, but like Match Point, the ending was such a turn off. I felt cheated of an actual ending. It was like he had just given up at the last minute and says to himself: "lets just kill them both off for the h... read more
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February 8, 2009Terry: "Gee, ain't life grand?" You know where that's from? What movie? Ain't Life Grand, no?" Bonnie and Clyde. Two Barrow brothers having a fine time
and Clyde says, "Ain't life grand?"
Ian: You know what happened to them?
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February 7, 2009Gut-punches all the way through. Strong performances and such a moving, meditative script. I'm glad that with each of Woody's "conscionable killing" movies, the stakes get much higher and the payoffs subtly change. One of my favorite cinematic images is at the beginning when t... read more
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January 13, 2009Not at all Allen's best, even in his depressing mode, but I did enjoy it. This is one of the first times Colin Farrell didn't annoy the shit out of me (even affective in some scenes) and Wilkinson is always good (he could talk me into anything). As a bonus, you can see the chick... read more
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January 11, 2009Cassandra's Dream is a dull journey of two brothers (Colin Farrell and Ewan MacGregor) who in a desperate attempt for money agree to assist their uncle (Tom Wilkinson) in eliminating a problem.
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September 4, 2008Good acting especially from Colin Farrell and a decent story, not great Woody Allen but a good entertaining film.
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August 18, 2008Remember when Woddie Allen movies used to be funny and endearing? This one is not. I didn't feel sorry for either of the lead characters; only for everyone else who came into contact with them. The film could have trimmed the fat a bit as well.
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August 3, 2008After watching 'Before the devil knows your dead', you couldn't stop to compare the two films. Lumets film became a masterpiece and this a let down.
Woody Allen has lost his touch. The movie drags on and although there's good actors in it, there really isn't any heart in it. The... read more
Critic Reviews
February 6, 2009
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
February 6, 2009
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
It's enough to make you pine for the good old days -- back when life was only partly ironic and Woody was totally funny. Full Review
October 18, 2008
Dana Stevens, Slate
These characters not only don't talk like working-class Londoners, they don't talk like anyone. Full Review
October 18, 2008
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
The problem is, you don't feel the human sweat and strain in Cassandra's Dream, despite game work from Farrell and McGregor. There are plenty of ideas and themes and no people of distinctive interest ... Full Review
October 18, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Allen is notorious for not giving his actors explicit instructions, and yet somehow this worked wonders for Farrell, who has never seemed so naked, so clear and so unencumbered as he does here. Full Review
July 16, 2008
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Although McGregor and Farrell produce some occasionally spirited moments, particularly in the earlier scenes, they are little more than walking and talking schemes, their choices based entirely on soc... Full Review
March 12, 2008
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy. Full Review
January 31, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward. Full Review
January 23, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.
January 22, 2008
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
There's still some snap in Woody's writing, and still some sharpness to his black humor.
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