Andy Summers 🤠’s review published on Letterboxd:
This has a few too many of Woody's idiosyncrasies to totally work for me. It has a couple of strands to the story that I was fully engaged in and the others that grated a little. A mixed bag indeed, this may explain the poor reviews I've been reading.
I'll start by saying I'm a big fan of both Alec Baldwin and Penelope Cruz. I also happen to be one of the few people who likes Jesse Eisenberg. With both Ellen Page and Greta Gerwig added to the mix, this had more than enough pulling power to sustain my interest. However it just happens to be all over the place. The four stories although unrelated all have a familiarity to them. Somehow I've seen them all before in other films. Woody, instead of giving us something new and original seems to have redone something from someone else. It's tired and lacks those little nuances that I'd been getting used to from the little guy. Patchy is a good description of this and for once our Woody isn't the most annoying thing in the movie. Sorry Roberto Benigni but that honor goes to you. Pointless and guilty of gross overacting, he must have been doing Woody a favor here.
Baldwin and Eisenberg were definitely watchable. Page and Gerwig never got quite enough screen time and Woody was Woody. The opera singer though, wow what a voice. Oh and if I happen to visit Rome and they have a hooker that looks like Penelope Cruz then don't expect me to ever come home.