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The International (2009)

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Reviews Counted: 189

Fresh: 110

Rotten:79

Average Rating: 5.8/10

Consensus: The International boasts some electric action sequences and picturesque locales, but is undone by its preposterous plot.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some sequences of violence and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 13, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $25,450,527

Synopsis: Released in a post-globalization economy teetering on the brink of a depression, THE INTERNATIONAL admirably stays in step with its time. Screenwriter Eric Singer hangs this man-against-the-machine... Released in a post-globalization economy teetering on the brink of a depression, THE INTERNATIONAL admirably stays in step with its time. Screenwriter Eric Singer hangs this man-against-the-machine action-thriller not on the Russians, North Koreans, or turncoats in the C.I.A., but on the I.B.B.C., an international bank that wields power through crippling debt. With villains like these, viewers fretting over their own mortgage rates will find themselves rooting zealously for these crooked financiers to fall hard. Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and his partner, New York Assistant D.A. Eleanor Whitman (the somewhat underused Naomi Watts), are consistently stonewalled by local law enforcement in their attempt to close in on the bank’s insiders. The conflict deepens two-fold as Salinger discovers not only how wide the bank’s nefarious influence spreads, but how loosely he will act within legal boundaries to get his man. Owen elevates the at-times standard espionage plot devices with his now trademark (but always riveting) me-against-the-worldisms: his hard-edged focus and steely moral clarity. Armin Mueller-Stahl also stands out in the cast as a weathered ex-communist revolutionary now finding himself in the epicenter of capitalist corruption. With spirited but tight direction, Tom Tykwer (of RUN, LOLA, RUN and THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR fame) emphasizes longer action sequences and a more developed narrative arc than many contemporary post-BOURNE IDENTITY thrillers. The film’s centerpiece--an incredible shoot-out in the Guggenheim Museum with flying plaster, shattering installations, and shifting loyalties--reads like a disaster movie for the highbrow set as art lovers everywhere will experience a perverse thrill watching the museum’s famed spiral shot up by I.B.B.C. thugs. [More]

Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne

Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne

Director: Tom Tykwer

Director: Tom Tykwer
Screenwriter: Eric Warren Singer
Producer: Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Lloyd Phillips
Composer: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Jun 9, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1
  • Dubbed, Subtitles - Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
  • Subtitles - Chinese, English, Korean

Additional Release Material:

  • Extended Scenes: Salinger & Whitman - Extended Scene
  • Audio Commentary: Tom Tykwer, Director; Eric Singer, Writer

Making Of:

  • 1. Making The Internatioanl
  • 2. The Architecture of The International
 
 
 
 

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Tykwer demonstra conhecer as convenções básicas do gênero espionagem ao trazer uma atmosfera de intriga internacional à narrativa.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment 1 Comment
06/20/09
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

[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.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
06/16/09
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Naomi and Clive burrow into the swanky sewage of global conspiracies by capitalist assassins and devious suits, in league with diversifying mobsters worldwide. Sobering details effectively spiced up, and with leading man libidos firmly in check.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
06/05/09
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

See it for Owen's trademarked thinking cap and glower, the Guggenheim, the score, and the smugness of knowing first-hand that banks are actually much, much stupider than any movie could ever predict. Check it out, it's a fun time.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
05/31/09
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

It's helpful to keep in mind that any movie about the evils of corporate culture that's backed by a Hollywood studio has an inescapable identity crisis.

Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | comment Comment
04/07/09
Jeffrey Bloomer
Paste Magazine

Emfanos aposteiromenos gia to proto toy taksidi sto Hollywood, o Tom Tykwer afinei ton Frank Griebe, ton fotografo toy ap' tin epohi toy Trekse, Lola, Trekse (1998), na bgalei oli ti doyleia

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
03/22/09
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

A world-weary Clive Owen takes on a powerful and corrupt bank in a tough but ultimately tedious - game of cat and mouse that ranges across Europe and North America

Full Review Source: Screenwize | comment Comment
03/21/09
Simon Weaving
Screenwize

...all the excitement of a corporate report combined with the liveliness of a stuffed animal.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | comment Comment
03/18/09
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

If you're going to make a movie about homicidal bankers, you don't get extra dividends for exaggerated body counts.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/16/09
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

The film offers a classic example of a screenwriter boxing himself in a narrative corner from which there is no escape.

Full Review Source: Critic's Notebook | comment Comment
03/13/09
Robert Levin
Critic's Notebook

Tom Tykwer's thriller shrewdly introduces Lou (Clive Owen) as he observes rather than acts.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
03/08/09
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
03/06/09
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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The International is being presented as a “thriller for our times”, but it’s too far-fetched to be relevant. Still, it’s an enjoyable yarn.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
03/06/09
Cosmo Landesman
Sunday Times (UK)

Slick, fast-moving conspiracy thriller.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
03/06/09
Philip French
Observer [UK]

The pacing could be a bit faster and the script could be a little less obvious but this is overall well worth a look.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
03/03/09
Simon Thompson
Daily Express

The International is far from being a Bourne or a Bond but it does pass muster for a Saturday night at the movies. Just.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
03/03/09
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

The plot is heavy going at times and the interrogation scenes are a tad dull, while the dialogue is often just ludicrous.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK] | comment Comment
03/03/09
Mickey McMonagle
Sunday Mail [UK]

I only wish that the final story was as strong as that initial concept.

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
03/01/09
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

There are dashes of style here and there that almost threaten to make the movie halfway worthwhile.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
02/28/09
Tim Brayton
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