This is a doddery piece of anemic self-indulgence with Allen continuing his nostalgia wet dream evident in Midnight in Paris. The dialogue is uniformly weak and the humor fully flaccid, Allen's voice over dreary at best, attempts at period and gangster ambience superficial, every frame dreamily predictable, the actor basically portraying Allen has no presence and weight, he is too much a glum whiny Allen stand-in. The movie is a monumental dud.