Woody was funny
Michael Caine was good
Barbara Hershey was good
But the film really drags when these three are absent
Everybody else was boring, especially Diane Weist, Mia,Lloyd Nolan etc
Diane Weist's Holly is probably my favourite character in the movie. I don't find a single second of it dull, it's amongst my favourite movies of the 1980s.
shareThis is my favorite of Woody's films and that's saying a ton. Oddly, since you mention Barbara Hershey, she's actually the only performance I didn't love.
shareIt's probably my favorite movie ever. So no, I don't think it's aged poorly. Or that it's boring.
shareI'm not sure how one could find this "Boring." It's full of great characters, great dialog, a tremendous score that really rides the flow of the film. I mean, I get it if people just aren't Allen fans, he's certainly not for everyone($40 mil Box Office and it was his best til just recently) but to say it's boring and hasn't aged well seems insane to me. Just watched after a decent time break between my last viewing and it's as fresh as ever. One of my personal favorite Allen films and definitely one of the best in the genre, PERIOD.
shareThis movie has aged beautifully. It deals with many universal themes that anyone can relate to at any time, the performances are top notch, the characters are vibrant...it's amazing how some of the characters do despicable things yet you somehow sympathies with them cause they feel like real people and not just stereotypes.
The only thing I would criticize is that this is one of Allen's least visually interesting movies from around that time period of his filmography. It's missing that depth that Gordan Willis was able to achieve during that period when he was Allen's regular cinematographer.