NIGHTMARE: WOODY ALLEN LOSES THE PLOT

LEGENDARY filmmaker Woody Allen has lost the plot.

Either that or he's really, really lost his touch with new movie Cassandra's Dream.

Even if we were to charitably accept that its plot must have looked good on paper to every star who signed on the dotted line, I discovered at a preview screening today that he's still delivered a whopping turkey seven months early.

Until you see it for yourself, you just couldn't believe how bad this is considering the cast includes Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson.

See for yourself after the 'thriller' goes on general release on Friday, May 23 when I'll be reviewing it in the Birmingham Mail.

Cassandra's Dream will be opening like a limited edition flea circus compared with the mammoth worldwide release of Steven Spieberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The idea there, of course, is to give those who don't want to watch a blockbuster a more arty alternative.

It's art all right. But probably not in the way that the now 72-year-old Woody intended.