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Re: "The movie was a tedious endurance contest for me." -Well, you'd better avoid Hitch's old films then.

"Alfred Hitchcock employed many of the same slowly evolving ("tedious") character developement techniques cleverly used in Match Point."


I quite like Hitchcock. It was the character development that I found tedious it was the movie that I found tedious because I found nothing likable nor interesting in the primary character. I am more than happy to enjoy character development at a slow pace.


" He made his characters interesting, albeit flawed, and not always likable, just as Woody has done here."


Yes, his characters were interesting. That is where Matchpoint departs. There was nothing interesting about the main character at all. nothing to empathise with. He was shallow, soiapathic and humorless. It did not allow me to invest any interest in his fate.


"Scott, you are certainly entitled to your dissenting opinion of this movie, but AFAIC, your analysis is dead wrong. The pacing was perfect and while Woody's intent was dramatic irony rather than comic irony there was sufficient situational humor for a story of this kind."


Thank you for accepting my opinion while disagreeing with it. The problem I had with the pacing was it was to even. It felt like a two hour long Phillip Glass composition with a punchline. But some people love Phillip Glass don't they?


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