The International (2009)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 201
Fresh: 119 | Rotten: 82
The International boasts some electric action sequences and picturesque locales, but is undone by its preposterous plot.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 20
The International boasts some electric action sequences and picturesque locales, but is undone by its preposterous plot.
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Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have become hopelessly corrupt, prompting Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan assistant district attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts) to follow a dangerous money trail from Berlin to Milan to New York and Istanbul. But as determined as Agent
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All Critics (204) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (84) | DVD (16)
The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal.
Top CriticEventually, you just let the tangled double-crossing take care of itself and enjoy the way the film defiantly bucks the contemporary thriller trend for shaky-cam coverage and lightning cuts.
Killer banks may be new to the movies, but there's nothing else original in this if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Istanbul thriller, with its portentous globe-hopping and racing through colorful street bazaars.
A sleek conspiracy thriller from German director Tom Tykwer.
A slow road to nowhere, less clunky than The Interpreter but bogged down by its own cynicism.
I was really disappointed.
Take away the Guggenheim shootout and we've at least got Clive Owen at half throttle. Take away Owen and there's nothing left but the tired old mystic cabal of sadistic sorcerers.
...an exceptional thriller that's consistently elevated by the uniformly superb performances and Tom Tykwer's subdued yet stylish directorial choices.
A thankfully, skillfully mature effort by Tykwer to produce a proper thriller for adults, one even lent a little extra resonance by our currently cash-strapped times.
Think of it as the cinematic equivalent of a chunky paperback thriller that gets you through a week-long holiday.
It's not a bad thriller, but it's dispiriting to see the gifted Tykwer doing the Ridley Scott fandango
The International packs handsome leads and exotic scenery - so why doesn't the film click with audiences like it should?
Tykwer demonstra conhecer as convenções básicas do gênero espionagem ao trazer uma atmosfera de intriga internacional à narrativa.
[Plays] itself as a mystery/thriller with something profound to say at the end, when we've pretty much heard a lot of this already.
A competent film with a competent cast, despite a by-the-numbers script. It's just unfortunate that we've seen so much of this before, and that the film meanders, then lurches earnestly toward a conclusion.
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The International is a film that holds many cliched themes, ideas and set pieces that makes it feel unoriginal and boring. There are even couple of pointless shoot-outs that feel completely out of place and destroys rest of the film's overall pace. It is sad to see that Tykwer and his team are making somekind of sophisticated mixture of Commando and Parallax View. Eric Warren Singer's story is flat and boring and the cast is completely lost with their material. It is sad to see actor like Naomi Watts in role this thankless and one dimensional as it is here. Clive Owen mostly shouts his dialogue so everyone can see how furious he is. The International might look sleek and stylish but it lacks the energy, suspense and originality to make it worthvile. This is one of Tykwer's weakest films to date.
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