Wait, I have a strange sensation that I've already seen this movie, but with better characters and a more suspenseful story. A murder in New York takes place and voyeurs and snoops solve the crime, and the crime brings the couple closer together? And the villain resembles Raymond Burr. What movie is this? Okay, I'm using a technique called "sarcasm" to relay my disappointment and simultaneous amusement with this Woody Allen movie. Yes, it's great that Woody likes movies so much and that he makes his own movies as an
homage to past ones [
Rear Window in this case], but really -- at some point maybe you don't actually have a super awesome idea for a movie. Maybe don't make a movie for one year. It's totally okay.
While I thought
Rear Window was a better movie, Manhattan Murder Mystery was pretty fun. Its cast features the
First Lady of Cinema, Angelica Houston, Alan
Alda [feminist], Aida
Tuturro and Jerry Adler [both of Sopranos fame]. Also, the last scene of the movie mirrors [get it?] the mirror scene from
The Lady from Shanghai. People shoot each other amidst mirrors, and the mirrors reflect scenes from
The Lady from Shanghai because it is playing in the movie theater where the shooting is taking place. Rad!
3/5 pizzas
Besides Bananas, I am not much of a fan of the Slapstick Woody Allen movies. Yes, we can tell you like Russian novels. Yes, we can tell that you like Ingmar Bergman. Yes, we can also tell that you still hate women. There were just too many jokes about breasts and pedophilia in this. Oh well.
