Last night, I watched Match Point over at Sam’s house, and I was extremely disappointed. If you have seen this movie, I sympathize with the various hurt inflicted on your ears and eyes. If you have not seen this movie, please make efforts to avoid it.

The merits of this movie are few and far between. The only redeeming qualities of this film - and I beg any female readers to forgive me for this - is the frequent sex scenes involving the always sexy Scarlett Johansson. Otherwise, the story just seemed a mish-mash of morality issues from Crime and Punishment (which was prominently featured at the start of the movie) with an injection of infidelity. There was one part in the movie where two murdered characters appear and mock their killer, plaguing him with doubts about his safety after his crime. Many of the doubts are things Raskolnikov experiences in Dostoevsky’s masterful work (some of them are even expressed verbatim).

All in all, the movie was kind of disappointing. Unlike Crime and Punishment, the murderers internal torment does not force him to confess and repent. Instead, he gets away with it and the story is wrapped up extremely quickly after an extremely lengthy build-up.