SaraEmelie Clive Owen trying to hard to seem upset and it feels like you have seen this story before. Just in another format. Probably exciting for some people though, just not 10/10 for me.

jormatuominen I have watched this film at least five times and haven´t still quite gotten enough. It has everything going for it - a cast of stars, cinematic excellence and a script that walks the thin line between plausible and not quite plausible to build a lot of suspense. Shooting locations (no pun intended) include among others the Hagia Sophia and of course the now-legendary seven minute Uzi war in the Guggenheim Museum - surely this is no longer a spoiler! There are many scenes that could be from a Hitchcock film, for example the totally random appearance of a suspect and the resulting trailing to the Museum, suspense building inside the viewer´s head. Wide-eyed and unshaven, Clive Owen as the bewildered and pissed off main character seems straight out of North By Northwest. What´s more, the ghost of Orson Welles is even stronger than that of Hitch. After all Orson´s favorite theme of power corrupting mercilessly it´s users is the essence of Eric Warren Singer´s extremely well thought out script. There is a lot of dialogue and it´s all relevant and intelligent. Naomi Watts has a fairly limited female lead role, but she does it well. The film does not give any verbal hints about the relationship between the lead characters, yet it is obvious from the acting that there is or at least has been one. The lack of romantic nonsense earns an extra star for the International. Believe me, this is not that kind of film. Armin Mueller-Stahl is once again the old guy who actually knows what´s going on, a role he has done many times and he is again absolutely superb in it.

Prismark10 The International stars Clive Owen as Louis Salinger, an Interpol agent with a chequered past who investigates a powerful private bank that plays a sinister role in the sale of illegal arms, money laundering and even destabilising governments. A bank that is so powerful it will kill anyone that will get in its way or even threatens to be a liability.Salinger is assisted by Manhattan assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts). Together they globe-trot looking for evidence to take down this powerful organisation while their bosses pile pressure on them to shut their investigation down.It is a solid but lukewarm thriller which should had powerful things to say about the dog eat dog arena of global finance and destabilisation of developing countries but then realises it needs some action scenes, the best of which is the shootout at the Guggenheim museum in New York.The trouble is the fox was shot a few months earlier with the release of the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace which also dealt with a shadowy organisation. In fact both movies have a fixer called Mr White.On its own it is not a bad thriller, it is helped by its multi location shooting but apart from the Guggenheim scenes it is never going to be memorable.

SnoopyStyle Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) is investigating the bank IBBC for buying $200million worth of missile guidance system with the Manhattan Assistant D.A. Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts). His partner dies in an apparent sophisticated killing. Then his partner's informer is found dead. Salinger is facing many roadblocks in this international conspiracy of money laundering, arms trafficking, and political corruption. Bank chairman Jonas Skarssen (Ulrich Thomsen)'s police statement is revised. Wilhelm Wexler (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is the banker who hired the Consultant.It's a lot of tense atmospherics. However the heat is left mostly at a slow boil. The use of bankers as bad guys is an interesting twist and a fitting one for the times. This is essentially a spy thriller with bankers instead of spies. The other noticeable thing from director Tom Tykwer is that he loves to put architecture in this movie. The story is a long winding twisty thing. There is a big shootout at the Guggenheim which finally gave this movie some action energy plus the prerequisite architecture fetish. Mostly it's a fun ride for conspiracy lovers.