Life is good for the Blaine brothers, at least for the moment. Ian (Ewan McGregor), a restaurateur, is in love with a gorgeous actress (Hayley Atwell) ; and Terry (Colin Farrell) wins big at the dog track and buys a yacht. Their luck soon changes when Terry's loan sharks come calling. The brothers ask their wealthy Uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson) for a loan, which he is happy to provide in exchange for one little favor: kill a whistle-blowing colleague.
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Wherever it came from, the visual leitmotif in Woody Allen's 2005 drama "Match Point" - the tennis ball hitting the tippy-top of the net in slow motion, echoed by a similar shot of the incriminating ring hitting a stone wall - revealed a filmmaker paying attention to something new. The shots really did seem freshly conceived, and in an unusually elegant way they crystallized Allen's themes of chance and fortune. (Full review)