The International

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The International
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R,1hr 58min
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February 13, 2009
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Sony Pictures/Columbia
Synopsis: Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer's action thriller concerning an ambitious Interpol agent who targets corruption at the top levels of the world's largest banking institutions. The world's most powerful banks have become hopelessly corrupt, prompting Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan assistant district attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts) to follow a dangerous money trail from Berlin to Milan to New York and Istanbul. But as determined as Agent Salinger ... Full Synopsis
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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. Full Review
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Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Clive Owen, center, and Naomi Watts in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Naomi Watts, left, and Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
Clive Owen in "The International" (Sony Pictures/Columbia)
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