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Screen Rant reviewsThe International
I really wanted to walk out ofThe Internationalhaving have a go at it it , but the best I can manage is that overall I liked it a lot .
It ’s the story of Louis Salinger ( Clive Owen ) , and INTERPOL agent working in France and his endeavour to entail a mega - banking firm in arms trade . I loved how the film open - the very first frame puts you right into the film with no preamble . Louis and his partner are trying to " rick " a bank executive and get him to provide grounds of the bank ’s misdeeds . thing do not go well within a few short second .
It seems that everyone is against Louis and he can make no headway in his probe . hoi polloi are being killed and " disappeared " but there is no concrete evidence of the savings bank ’s participation . He is shortly joined by American FBI operative Eleanor Whitman ( Naomi Watts ) , who has been set about to exercise the case DoS - side , and has also been running into roadblocks .
I do n’t dislike Naomi , but I have to say that she stuck out like a painful quarter round as presently as she look . The first part of the pic was shot in Europe , and I feel like I was bury in the earth of espionage - until she come on screen . I bought the actors up until that point completely as the characters they were run - be it law officers , bankers , lawyers , whatever . But when she appeared it was like " oh take care , she ’s play an FBI agent . " She was just atrociously miscast in this film .
When the film move to New York City it lost me even further . short I did n’t corrupt any of the characters at all and it bring me out of the film . Perhaps if the intact matter had commence in the U.S. and stayed there I would have felt differently , but the difference between the European and U.S. actors / aspect was quite jarring . It run from cool espionage film to typical cop action movie , and not in a good way .
There was one scene in particular that I found passing over the top and out of place in the moving picture : I do nt ' want to spoil it but it takes post at the Guggenheim museum where a big gun battle go down . The amount of firepower , number of men and the complete and utter disregard for stealth did not conform to one iota with what hail before or after in the film .
It was like the studio apartment severalise manager Tom Tykwer"hey man , you ’re movie ’s form of slow - we need you to stick a Brobdingnagian natural process set piece of music right here so you do n’t lose the audience . "
Now I do n’t know if that ’s the case , but it certainly had the reverse consequence on me . Once the movie strike back abroad , it start to catch my attention and I started enjoy it once again .
OverallThe Internationalis a good film that could have been smashing . If you ’re a Clive Owen buff , it ’s certainly worth checking out .
