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Reviews Counted:191
Fresh:111
Rotten:80
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: The International boasts some electric action sequences and picturesque locales, but is undone by its preposterous plot.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Feb 19, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $25,450,527
Synopsis: Released in a post-globalization economy teetering on the brink of a depression, THE INTERNATIONAL admirably stays in step with its time. Screenwriter Eric Singer hangs this man-against-the-machine... [More]
Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne
Director: Tom Tykwer
Direction is superb, balancing action, story, character and something valuable to say in a compelling movie that you wish wouldn't end. And when the end does come, we wish all thrillers could be so genuine and real
Top CriticAt a time when the global financial crisis is being blamed, to a large extent, on the banking industry I suppose it's only to be expected that a bank will become the villain of a movie thriller.
Top CriticIf he has trouble making his characters very interesting, Tykwer comes into his own in staging the action.
Top CriticAs frustrating as the story's shallowness is, this shortcoming is very nearly negated by the sheer physical pleasure of the production.
Top CriticA timely yet cold drama that's exquisitely produced but mechanical and off-base in intent and execution. As for the plot? 'Terrorism, brought to you by Citibank'
Top CriticThe tepid script doesn't quite live up to Tykwer's taut direction.
Top CriticThere is considerable satisfaction in seeing these tyrants of high finance live up to their image as the new villains of modern cinema, but even more satisfying are Tykwer's superbly staged action set pieces.
Top CriticAn international bank with dubious morals and unethical practices is at the centre of this large-scale thriller which steamrolls its way through politics, big business, organised crime and weapons acquisition
Top CriticBankers are the new bad guys for Hollywood because they're part of a stimulus package taking us down the road to Socialism as folks drink the Obamarama Kool-Aid.
For all its serious intent, Tykwer’s ‘relevant’ thriller proves to be perilously naff.
Top CriticHoward Hawks once said that the key to making a good movie was "three good scenes and no bad ones." The International has a bunch of bad scenes... but the good one is downright amazing.
The film-makers are predictably making much of the allegedly prophetic nature of their bankers-as-villains storyline. Nice try. At its heart, The International is just another tale of a flawed idealist tangling with faceless corporate evil.
[Plays] itself as a mystery/thriller with something profound to say at the end, when we've pretty much heard a lot of this already.
The International is one of the better films of 2009 so far and contains an action scene that is worth the price of admission.
Tykwer demonstra conhecer as convenções básicas do gênero espionagem ao trazer uma atmosfera de intriga internacional à narrativa.
Message to Clive Owen: Daniel Craig filled the James Bond vacancy a while back and is doing a great job, so you really should stop auditioning for the role.
Though stylish, it lacks the aesthetic-moral force of such political thrillers as Francesco Rosi’s Exquisite Corpses, Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite, Spielberg’s Munich or DePalma’s Blow Out.
A tough sell due to its ambition, complexity and the fact that its action is contained in a single, crazy mid-film burst; still, a perfectly good, engrossing adult espionage drama even if it doesn't take a full, hearty swing at greatness.
The International is equal parts globe-trotting thriller and architecture porn, as perfectly crystallized by its mind-blowing central set piece: a seemingly endless shootout at the Guggenheim Museum.
...all the excitement of a corporate report combined with the liveliness of a stuffed animal.
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