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"The movie was a tedious endurance contest for me." -Well, you'd better avoid Hitch's old films then.

Alfred Hitchcock employed many of the same slowly evolving ("tedious") character developement techniques cleverly used in Match Point. He made his characters interesting, albeit flawed, and not always likable, just as Woody has done here. On the surface Hitch's character driven stories always seemed to have a slice-of-life quality to them, focusing on troubled relationships, with an underlying sense that something wasn't quite right and that some terrible event was going to happen at any given moment.

In Hitchcock's tales an interesting plot device was often employed, what he called a "McGuffin" or an object being sought that was only of importance to one or more of the characters, but not important to telling the story about the characters. Woody used this technique perfectly here.

Scott, you are certainly entitled to your dissenting opinion of this movie, but AFAIC, your analysis is dead wrong. The pacing was perfect and while Woody's intent was dramatic irony rather than comic irony there was sufficient situational humor for a story of this kind.

Cheers,
AuPh

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