The Interpreter (2005)
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Cast
as Silvia Broome
as Tobin Keller
as Dot Woods
as Nils Lud
as Young Silvia
as Marcus
as Philippe
as Simon Broome
as Charlie Russell
as Luan
as Roland
as Kuman-kuman
as Police Chief Lee Wu
as Mo
as FBI Agent King
as Spanish Speaking Interpreter
as Matoban Ambassador
as Zuwanie
as U.N. Security Officer
as U.N. Security Officer
as American Ambassador Davis
as Phillip Ostroff
as Fred Jameson
as Rory Robb
as U.N. Security Officer
as Jenny
as Polygraph Technician
as FBI Agent Lewis
as Forensic Officer
as Doug
as Mechanic
as Jonathan Williams
as Jean Gamba
as G.A. President
as Jonathan Ferris
as Chilean Ambassador
as U.N. Security Officer
as News Reporter
as Russian Interpreter
as Ajene Xola
as African Boy
as African Boy
as Isobel
as Tour Guide
as French Ambassador
as Jad Jamal
as Portuguese Janitor
as Woman On Bus
as U.N. Security Officer
as U.N. Security Officer
as Stripper
as Stripper
as Secretary General
as Young Simon
as Himself
as News Reporter
as News Reporter
as British Airways Ticket Agent
as African Boy
as Ajene Xola
as Doug
as Jonathan Ferris
as Russian Interpreter
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Critic Reviews for The Interpreter
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Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness.
This is largely a competent, successful thriller, but observing global politics from this perspective is an uncomfortable, frustrating experience.
The film's themes are disappointingly vague and unspecific, built around a fictitious African country that stands for anywhere -- and consequently nowhere.
I was steadily absorbed by The Interpreter, even though much of the plot didn't make a great deal of sense.
While it pains me to beat up on Pollack, who, in addition to being a consistently wonderful actor, is at least attempting to make movies the old-fashioned way, it pains me more to actually sit through his movies.
As a straight-ahead thriller, the movie is enjoyable and stirring much of the time.
Audience Reviews for The Interpreter
A disastrous film that wants to be more complex than it should be, coming up with more and more unnecessary details at the expense of simple concision, and so the obvious, predictable narrative gets lost amid contrivances, implausible scenes and plot holes the size of Africa.
Super Reviewer
Kidman and Penn are good actors but the script is a bit limited, especially in terms of characterization, and it just leaves you thinking that this could've been so much better than what it was. Good thriller.
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Tobin Keller: I'd rather make the mistake of believing her, than the bigger one of not. "The truth needs no translation" Despite liking both Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn(both of whom give good performances), I was left underwhelmed when The Interpreter was all said and done. For the most part, it was really just a dull drama with some thriller elements tossed in here and there. It never had me on the edge of my seat like it could have. It's not technically a horrible movie, but I really found no joy in it. Other then the leads; the film doesn't really have any redeemable qualities. It's really dialogue heavy which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the dialogue leaves a lot to be desired. There are a few really interesting scenes, but as a whole the movie never really comes together. It doesn't flow at a good pace. It's slow, slower and then slowest and then for a three minute stretch it will pick up the pace. Then it will go back to it's snail crawl. I'm okay with slow films if they have good characters, dialogue and situations. This movie has one interesting character(Kidman's, Penn's character was lifeless, although he did play him well), bad dialogue and two or three cool situations. I really wish this would have turned out different with the people involved. But I guess I can just go watch one of Penn's or Kidman's countless great movies.
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