You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

Clint Eastwood may be getting better with age but Woody Allen sure as hell isn't. He has no dramatic questions left in him except "Why can't I get laid anymore?" Allen has made the same movie over and over again for the last dozen years or so and except for "Vicky Christina Barcellona" and "Match Point" he has not even tried to make the stale themes seem fresh. He simply makes the same bad soap opera again and again. I thought he hit a low point with last year's catastrophe with Larry David but it seems he had even further to sink. The new low water mark is called "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger". Not sure if it's a drama or a comedy because this film is not at all funny nor is it particularly dramatic. It's just lazy filmmaking.
So, this is an ensemble piece about a bunch of people who aren't happy with the romantic life they are living including an old, viagra-popping man who leaves his wife for a young gold digger, and the old man's daughter and her husband who want to hump other people and blah, blah, blah. It's just a rehash of Woody's sexual obsessions. Been there, done that, was bored by it years ago. Not only that but in Allen's aging isolation from reality he has lost his ability to write dialogue that an actual human being would say. The most amusing thing in the film is watching good actors trying to make the dialogue work. Add to that a plot that is riddled with gaps in logic and a lack of any insight into the whole mess and what you get is passionless and meaningless morality play that isn't worth the price of admission.
Woody Allen should stop making movies unless he has something to say. He's destroying his own legacy.