
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and... (Full plot summary below)
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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?
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| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonSeemingly a simple comedy, it actually -- like all Allen's "simple" comedies -- has a lot to say. Will the audience listen or just dismiss it as minor, out-of-date Woody? If they do, it's their loss. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovThe formula is appealingly simple, and Allen's ear for distinctive old-codger dialogue and his equally distinctive acting let him emerge from his meandering scripts unharmed. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanThe Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a pure joy to watch. It's one of Allen's best films. |
| Reel.comTor ThorsenProdded to life only by the infrequent verbal zinger, the story feels sluggish, especially when it dwells on a romantic tangent 20 minutes after it should have logically ended. |
| Dallas Morning NewsPhilip WuntchThe film comes dangerously close to a vanity project and will give ammunition to the filmmaker's detractors. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekIt's a frail, anemic trifle, a five-minute sketch inexcusably drawn out to well over an hour and a half. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyLike a Swiss clock, Allen is the only American director who makes a film every year, but chronic fatigue and lack of inspiration seem to have taken over his work, as this retro comedy, using the old conceit of hypnosis, shows. |
| New York PostLou LumenickWoody Allen's most purely entertaining film in years. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffAllen made funnier films when he thought he was Ingmar Bergman. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesThe Curse of the Jade Scorpion is everything you'd expect from Woody Allen -- funny lines, stars galore, jazzy music, and gratuitously good cinematography. |