They made a pretty decent thriller about a fairly boring topic (The IBBC).
Many reviewers found it boring, but I was pretty hooked from beginning til end. I would like to mention that the shoot-out scene in the Guggenheim was pretty fucking awesome. More of that please. :)

Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
-Wilhelm Wexler

The quality of the directing and acting feels like it should have had better (or more) material to work with. Tom Tykwer really manages to pull off a few great scenes in a movie that would have ended up pretty boring with a less talented director at the helm. I would love to see what he could do with a thriller that had a more complex plot.

Naomi and Clive are teammates) Love them!

Muodinmukainen globaali trilleri, jossa kuvauslokaatiot on ripoteltu Luxemburgiin, New Yorkiin, Berliiniin ja Milanoon. Talouspoliittista shaissea snadisti liikaa.

Publiqué el 08/11/2009:

Watchin' "The international" (Tycwer, 2009)...
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The International (2009)
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"Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn... I'm the one you burn"...

"A man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it"...
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Just a big mess. The entire plot is a deep abyss of nothingness and could be simplified much better and become much more effective to the viewer. And it drags out way too much. It is just shy of 2 hours but I feel like it's been over 4 hours. Clive Owen doesn't really do anything special and overall the acting is incredibly mediocre. Unless you have a lot of free time or your heart set on seeing it, it's definitely a skip.

Καταπληκτική ταινία, απλά θα χρειαστώ άλλη μια προβολή να διαχωρίσω τους συνδέσμους των κατασκόπων γιατί ύπηρχε ένα μπέρδεμα.

Šis tāds gudrais triļluks, kur visu nerisina ar granātām un automātiem vien. Nē nu ir jau arī šaudīšanās un action, jo citādi jau nebija jēgas filmā piedalīties Klaivam Ouvenam, bet tik un tā šis gabals ir galvas tiesu pārāks par vidējo statistisko šaudīkli. Te ir starptautiskas banku mahinācijas, sazvērestības un nelegāla ieroču tirdzniecība, pasūtījuma slepkavības, spiegošana un pat valsts apvērsumi. Tā teikt nopietnu vīru nopietnas likmes pa visu pasauli un nav ko ar sīkumiem ķēpāties. Džeimsa Bonda cienīgas spēles, tikai mazliet ticamākas, cik nu tas vispār šādās filmās ir iespējams.

The Guggenheim sequence was obviously the highlight, well-staged and shot. Everything else was ho-hum or worse. Most notably on the negative ledger: Naomi Watts was terribly miscast--not tough enough to be believable in her job. Worse though was the writing, which throws out more one-line "words of wisdom" than not, a tactic that becomes downright egregious as the film progresses.