I can promise you a fairly good thriller with mixed-bag elements: preposterous plot, smartly elegant direction, one of the worst recent performances by a major actress, and a dynamite stick of an action scene that can stand close to the greats (the car chase in "The French Connection," the single-take battle sequence in "Children of Men") and from which the movie never really recovers.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Clive Owen makes a semi-believable hero, not performing too many feats that are physically unlikely. As the plucky DA, Naomi Watts wisely plays up her character's legal smarts and plays down the inevitable possibility that the two of them will fall in love.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
The compulsively watchable Owen makes for an ideal leading man of both action and angst. The film's eye-popping set piece, a shootout at the Guggenheim Museum, is an extravagantly choreographed valentine to philistines everywhere.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
This is a thriller where the cutting, even in most of the action sequences, is meticulous but leisurely. The elaborate set pieces are so beautifully worked out that you could take them apart, shot by shot, and fit the pieces back together like an intricate Chinese puzzle.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's something almost endearingly out of sync about the sleek but now dated Euro-thriller The International.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The International possesses the look and feel of a thriller, but not the heart or soul of one.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Though not as action-packed as some thrillers, The International is noteworthy for its unusually scenic and architecturally dazzling locations.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Where "Run Lola Run" was like a perpetual-motion machine, The International seems to forever be stopping in its own tracks. Tykwer takes coffee breaks to explain the convoluted and dicey plot.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A decent thriller that should have been dazzling, is nothing if not topical.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
If you take Tykwer's film even half-seriously, it will be like one of those horror movies that you leave, suspecting that the crazy, ingenious super-killer is waiting for you outside. A warning, then, to the susceptible: After seeing The International, don't dare go to an ATM.Read Full Review »
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