PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

grantss Danny Rose (played by Woody Allen) is a theatrical agent. He has a wide and often odd assortment of clients but will do anything for them. One of his clients, Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte) - a washed up crooner from the 50s who is undergoing a resurgence, asks Danny to accompany his mistress, Tina (Mia Farrow), to one of his concerts - her presence helps him perform. Danny naturally obliges. However, Tina is also seeing a mob boss and when Danny is seen with her, the mob boss assumes Tina is two-timing him with Danny. This results in Danny and Tina being hunted by the mob. Adventures and hilarity ensue.A wonderfully exuberant and funny comedy from Woody Allen. Some great scenes (the shootout among the gas-filled balloons is priceless) and one-liners. A pretty good adventure too, though it does get a bit silly at times.Great performance by Woody Allen as Danny Rose. His over-the-top salesman-like shtick is wonderful to behold. Incredibly funny. A pity not more time was devoted to his interactions with clients and his sales pitches to promoters, as these scenes were hilarious.Equally brilliant is Mia Farrow. So good she is totally uncognisable as the blonde Italian-American bimbo Tina.Good fun, with a bit of romance thrown in too.

SnoopyStyle A bunch of old-time comedians eating at a deli recall the hopeless tireless talent manager of terrible acts, Danny Rose (Woody Allen). Lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte) is on the comeback and needs Danny's help with a problem. Lou is married with kids and having an affair with Tina Vitale (Mia Farrow) who was gangster Johnny's former girlfriend. Danny pretends to be Tina's beard which raises the ire of the jealous gangster and his momma.It's a charming combination of characters and feel of a particular world. Woody Allen's Danny Rose is utterly hopeless and endearing. Nick Apollo Forte fits the over-the-hill lounge singer although I would love the role to be played by an actual actor. Mia Farrow is simply great. This is a particular movie with its particular charm. There are a lot of unknowns in the movie. That's also part of the charm but at times, I wish for more experienced actors.

Red-Barracuda Broadway Danny Rose is one of the films from Woody Allen's early 80's period. Like others from that time, it's a less well known effort and slightly more left-of-centre. It has a framing device where a group of show business types reminisce about an unsuccessful talent agent called Danny Rose who was well known for representing any act, no matter how hopeless. The main story thread is about the time when Rose almost makes it when a lounge singer he represents starts to unexpectedly become popular; matters become very complicated when Rose is tasked with getting together with a girl mixed up with the singer, a girl whose boyfriend is a jealous Mafioso. Before long he sends out two of his heavies after them with violent intent.This is one of several Allen films that was shot is crisp black and white. It's definitely to the films advantage as it looks very nice, with some fine cinematography overall. While on the surface it's another of Woody's comedy-dramas, in reality its closer to a straight comedy on account of the screwball narrative that goes slightly over-the-top. It essentially feels like a comedy-drama, while effectively being a light comedy. In this way it isn't serious enough to work as the former and overall isn't really that funny to score as the latter – although there are some inspired comic moments such as the helium scene. I suppose its storyline is more of a tragedy, seeing as it is about a man who selflessly helps others only to end up losing himself because of this. The narrative does lack a certain drive on the whole though, and the knockabout story doesn't always amount to a lot. Allen is good enough as Rose, while his former muse Mia Farrow does fine work as well. On the whole, this is not top drawer Allen for me but, as is usually the way, it still is a film with several good things about it.

Rockwell_Cronenberg This was an absolute delight, no way around it. Simple, hilarious and ultimately beautiful. I love the interesting ways that he structures his films and this one has one of the best techniques yet; the story is told as a story, told by a group of comics just hanging out at a restaurant shooting the breeze. It's a great way into the narrative and gives the film a very loose, vintage feeling. It truly does feel like a story that a veteran comic is telling around a table of friends. The black and white shooting helps even more in this interesting tone that he established, it all comes together beautifully.Usually Woody Allen's films benefit from their large casts of great scene-stealers but here he relies almost entirely on the chemistry between him and Mia Farrow and it was such a wise move. What we get is this delightful little adventure movie with the two of them constantly bantering with classic Woody dialogue, "I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect." I feel like Allen is underrated as an actor because people feel he always "plays himself", but I think he's great and always manages to add layers to his characters. Yes, there's the neurotic cynicism in everything he does, but there's always something more (and honestly even if there wasn't I would be fine watching him ramble on forever). In Deconstructing Harry there was the brutally sad undertones of a man who had spent his life trying to find happiness only to find himself alone and lost in his work, but here was a man who had spent his life trying to find happiness for others only to find himself used and abused. As wildly fun as a film like this is, there's also an aspect of it that absolutely breaks my heart.The final act was surprisingly solemn and depressing (although there's the classic smile of an ending), but the film shined brightest when Farrow and Allen were just being wild and bouncing off each other. Farrow was unrecognizable here, for a while I wasn't even sure it was her. Behind large sunglasses and a wild wig, she totally disappears and it's the most fun I've had watching a performance in a while. She is so in control and absorbed in this character, it's a riot. The two of them are tremendous in a wickedly entertaining film that in the end has a lot of heart and something important to say about the industry. Another work of Woody genius.