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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The advent of Andy Murray has badly aged these type of films. When you have a true life British Wimbledon champion, you care less about a fictional one.This film gets served regularly during Wimbledon fortnight. It is a passable rom-com starring an actor who is rather unsuited to the genre.Paul Bettany plays Peter Colt, a has been British tennis player about to call it a day. He has a wildcard for Wimbledon and at his hotel he encounters rising American tennis star Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) who is coached by her father (Sam Neill.)What starts as flirting ends up being a bit more serious, the upside being Peter starts to win, he gains the attention of the British public and his agent (Jon Favreau.)It is a likeable film but it is rather bland and also by the numbers with very little comedy.

Before I traduce this film, ~ I have to point out how much I admire the cast of great actors. Betany gives a flawless performance, as usual, but is working with an awfully outdated attack on the class system, which Mr. Allen has no real conception of being one of the elite and not a native of the British Isles. The premise of a society riven, and divided by class runs along clankingly throughout. After the killings in the film, it meanders on aimlessly until, trying to seek some resolution, Allen comes up with: horror of horrors the corpses of the dead materialise like some Homeric decent into the underworld. Maybe Allen might have succeeded had he followed Homer's lead and made Betany descend like a mystic elevator into Hades, but no. Sadly the dead materialise in the Kitchen illuminated by the open fridge.The wait for this resolution was not worthwhile, and to save myself embarrassment I had had to leave the cinema.Has Woody Allen lost the plot? Yes, and for some time.

The tennis matches were well faked in this flick, with glimpses into the mind of the lead player (Paul Bettany) that we were not granted for his love-match (Kirsten Dunst), who is mainly presented on her back in bed. As usual, her role is seriously underwritten: she has no friend (as Bettany's character does), she has no car, and misbehaves during the competition by drinking, eating and shagging. Why he is able to win in his early 30s in spite of this behaviour, while she loses in her mid-20s is incomprehensible. Anyway, they both get out of tennis "it's only a game", get married and have two children in a highly traditional manner that probably made many female movie-goers vomit into their popcorn. Yes, it's a highly traditional movie, all about a male winning and a female worshipping him and having his babies, but it's all right because it's only entertainment, right? Seven for entertainment value. BTW, Wimbledon is the All-England Tennis and Croquet Club --- the croquet got well neglected in this particular picture.

Following two fine tennis players at Wimbledon and how their career changes as a result of their love affair. First of all, I'm not a big Dunst fan but I love Paul Bettany, but have never seen him in a love/romance film or role.Also there are some amazing tennis shots throughout this film, and some great filming concepts. The chemistry was believable and so was the plot. Both do a great job and there are great tennis scenes that correlates with the plot as well as a entertaining story. Of all the chick flicks that I've forced myself to watch, I think this one has the most of what I want from chick flicks: unique background and real conflict.