oudwest77 Reviews

To Rome with Love (2012)

Woody Allen's worst movie ever.

[4/10 · 30 May 2012]

To Rome with Love is just a bluff, the work of a man who's probably tired, or even worse, of a man who doesn't have anything else to say. This is the first impression when watching this movie, which lacks all the nice dialogues that are always part of Allen filmography. The characters are also just poor, and so is the acting, only exceptions are Alec Baldwin and Penelope Cruz. The story is just not interesting at all, so as the portrait of Rome, which seems so fake and untrue. Even a TV Italian commercial has a better direction (and much better photography) than this horrible movie. I mean, you are making a movie about Rome, not about Cleveland (with all respect for the city in Ohio. My idea is that Woody Allen just kept taking naps and left everything in the hands of some unknown Italian director, only this might explain this result.

A huge disappointment in every way you look at it.

Save your money!

On the Road (2012)

The spirit of the book is completely gone: a boring movie.

[6/10 · 29 May 2012]

I will try to be as short as I can be in my review, but I am just very surprised about the very positive reviews on IMDb. For me this was another huge disappointment. yes there are great landscapes, the photography is nice and the actors surely are OK, the music is often inspiring, but even if the movie basically tells the same events as in the book, I found it pretty boring, and above all the spirit of the book, about freedom etc, was completely gone. Too many scenes are just taken inside hotels rooms, houses etc, isn't this movie entitled on the road? Again, regarding the spirit of freedom, in the book surely wasn't all about sex and multiple partners etc, because that's not at all the freedom Jack Kerouac was talking about when he wrote it, these components have been way too much highlighted. I am sorry but I left the cinema pretty disappointed, if we had to wait all these year for a version of the book, and this is the result, well it would have been better to only have the book.