Only the cast can keep this very disappointing Woody Allen drama going. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play two brothers anxious to improve their social standing. To do this they approach their gangster Uncle played by the as always excellent Tom Wilkinson. Wilkinson will finance their dreams if they will just commit a murder for him.
Cassandra's Dream as one critic called it is basically a "morality play," the plot weaves along to it's inevitable and kind of pointless "crime doesn't pay "conclusion. Woody Allen has already kind of covered this material before in his films Match Point and Crimes and Misdemeanors, and frankly a lot more successfully.
The film was shot in England and the character's dialog sounds like something an American would think that blue collar English people would sound like. What was the point of even filming in England ? For the most part Allen hardly takes advantage of the London settings. But this is a typical polished Woody Allen production, in this case the production is at the service of his poor script.
The film was an original screenplay by Woody Allen, the running time is 108 minutes.
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