From: david_shayne@hotmail.com   
      
   Melinda with Crimes et délits ? You must be kidding !   
      
   I finally saw Melinda a few weeks ago. As a critic put it, for once it the   
   past few years, watching the latest WA movie was not painful, which is   
   extraordinary. But this does not mean that is was actually...humm, good !   
      
   Quite frankly, for regular WA viewers, Melinda has not very much to offer.   
   Another boring rehash of things seen a million time already. The screenplay   
   is not well inspired and was another pretext to make another 100-minute   
   movie. The comedy part is not that funny and the dramatic one is too   
   dramatic to be credible.   
      
   The actor who plays Melinda saves the movie IMHO. She is great. Will Farell   
   is good and gave me the only 2 laughs that I had during the movie.   
      
   I think the bottom line here is what's the point of Woody here trying to   
   show us the merits of comedy and drama while he mastered the fusion between   
   these 2 styles for so many years (e.g. Hannah and sisters). The   
   demonstration with Melinda is pointless and was just a lazy idea he had to   
   write another movie on his bed.   
      
   I do have hope for Match Point since it was filmed in London. We will see   
   what reception it gets in Cannes next month.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)