Tuesday, July 21, 2009

BD capsule review: The International

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If The International was Tom Tykwer's attempt to break into the American mainstream, then he succeeded admirably. The film is as slick and soulless as anything else being put out by the major studios at the moment, and absolutely none of the qualities that have marked out his previous films are to be found. A by-the-numbers conspiracy thriller, it pits Clive Owen's maverick Interpol investigator and Naomi Watts' workaholic assistant DA against a crowd of global arms smugglers cum assassins who receive their funding from a major international bank, enjoy meeting in coldly lit Mittel-European locales and speak in the sort of clipped, hushed tones that filmmakers seem to believe lend gravitas to any situation, however derivative.

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