Friday 20th February

Scoop

Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2006
Stars: Woody Allen, Scarlett O'Johansson, Hugh Jackman

Well this is a first. I just watched a Woody Allen film - and enjoyed it. That's never happened to me before. Admittedly, Woody Allen played his usual neurotic, annoying character, but this time round you weren't meant to like him. His annoying mannerisms were supposed to be annoying.

The story centres on a student journalist who gets a tip-off from a dead journalist with an amazing scoop, and decides she has to investigate. The story flows along nicely, the film (unlike some recent watches I won't mention) moves along at a nice steady pace, and, for me at least, it was quite hard to know how it would end. If only all Woody Allen films were this enjoyable...

Rating: 3.5 out of 5