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MOVIE REVIEW This week's reviewed movie is: The Tourist |
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I liked The Tourist for what it is. The plot provides ample twists. and Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie play enough cat-and-mouse humor for me to give it the benefit of the doubt in this story of mistaken identity. There's almost nothing serious about The Tourist, even when the heroes are dashing across Venice rooftops or looking down a gun barrel. Don't take it too seriously and enjoy the ride with two of the sexiest star powers of the season. |
Beautiful locales are the highlight in this Alfred Hitchcock wannabe. Depp and Jolie display no thrills or chemistry -- is it a case of mistaken identity or a clever ruse to fool everyone including the actors? It's a film filled with more cliches than answers, making it both unsatisfying and --in the end -- unremarkable. |
The Tourist is a romantic action flick that is a type that can seem almost degenerating from a moral, intellectual, or artistic point of view in its clockwork short journey. It is frantically overstuffed with an eagerness to please. The film has some of the common suspense /thriller elements like guns, gangsters, surveillance teams, vehicular crack-ups, and mistaken identities. The star power, in theory, could hardly get much more powerful, but in this movie the foreign director is doing his first Hollywood production. He has two features to his credit -- a masterpiece called The Lives of Others made a few years back -- and now, in my view, a turkey called The Tourist. |
