Those who like working a Rubik's Cube might find Duplicity appealing. With a lack of charisma, sexual chemistry or sizzle, it left me sadly disappointed.
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03/25/09
Duplicity (2009)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:108
Rotten:58
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Duplicity is well-crafted, smart, and often funny, but it’s mostly more cerebral than visceral and features far too many plot twists.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 19, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $40,559,930
Synopsis: DUPLICITY is a slick, Soderberghian comic caper in which it’s never exactly clear who is being conned. It’s easy to see that ex-CIA agent Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and former MI6 member Ray... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti
Director: Tony Gilroy
Reviews for Duplicity
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
At this point in the moviegoing year, it's probably foolish to ask for more. This is a movie movie -- with a bottle of Dom Perignon at the end.
03/25/09
They frumped Julia Roberts up and tore her charisma down. She like the movie had no sparkle. Plus there were twenty flashbacks too many. A little simplicity might have helped 'Duplicity'.
03/24/09
Writer/director Tony Gilroy's Duplicity is a pleasurable puzzle with a vast myriad of possible outcomes.
03/23/09
Duplicity is a light and airy affair that has far too much fun with zingy one-liners to be concerned with the rather relevant dirty laundry that's being aired out.
03/23/09
The zigzagging story needs the crackling speed of, say, Ocean's Eleven, but Gilroy moves as if he's afraid to lose his audience going around the turns.
03/23/09
With Duplicity [Gilroy is] developing a nice body of work.
03/23/09
Gilroy keeps it all moving at a steady, stylish pace.
03/23/09
Duplicity is an enormously enjoyable hybrid, a romantic comedy set at the center of a caper movie.
03/23/09
Top CriticIt’s a passably amusing brainteaser.
03/23/09
For all the glam and swank, the film is essentially a bright, shiny, empty puzzle. The puzzlemaking by writer-director Tony Gilroy is clever but most frequently an end in itself.
03/23/09
Welcome back my friends to the con that never ends ... Duplicity simply doesn't know when to quit.
03/23/09
The globetrotting spy thriller never measures up to being first-rate.
03/23/09
This film entertains through gameplay, turning suspenseful, comic, then romantic as if in the hands of a master card dealer. But Gilroy's trickeries can be revealed by just slightly encroaching the stage.
03/22/09
A disappointing exercise in achingly-familiar irritainment.
03/21/09
Who do you really trust? Especially if they happen to be double agents?
03/21/09
Tony Gilroy's dryly jaunty, globetrotting, spy-vs.-spy romp is ... just good enough to make you wish it were better.
03/21/09
Gilroy's movie does have its moments, most of which come down to the pleasures of its A-list cast, which possess enough talent and presence to stand down a plot so unnecessarily cluttered, it's a gimmick.
03/21/09
Whip smart storytelling and a fizzy caper delight.
03/21/09
Kudos to Roberts and Owen whose easy chemistry gets you through the plot's mush. Then there's Giamatti and Wilkinson, two guys who could play houseplants and blow your mind.
03/21/09
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