Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 200
Fresh: 118 | 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: 41
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 18
The International boasts some electric action sequences and picturesque locales, but is undone by its preposterous plot.
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Average Rating: 3/5
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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
Feb 13, 2009 Wide
Jun 9, 2009
$25.5M
Sony Pictures/Columbia
All Critics (202) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (84) | DVD (16)
The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal.
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.
The sour taste of revenge is pretty sweet here.
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.
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts are two of my favorites and together they helped me enjoy this film. A good hefty dose of action and some excellent thriller type moments as suspense combine for a good smart movie.
August 30, 2009Super Reviewer
Clive Owen's one of the few actors that have caught me off guard through his performances in "Inside Man", "Children of Men", and "Sin City" and his performance in "The International" delivers, but what a horribly convoluted screenplay. "The International" suffers from a narrow, one-dimensional plot with no heart, at
October 27, 2011Super Reviewer
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