
Variety
Graced with well-chosen location eye candy, Tom Tykwer's biggest production to date is proficient but lacks the added tension and characterization to put it anywhere near the top tier of contempo action suspensers.
Full reviewFrom the director of Perfume and Run, Lola, Run, Tom Tykwer, comes this international espionage action-thriller. One of the world’s most powerful banks is full of bad eggs involved in money laundering, arms trading, and financing terror and war.
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice, and their investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan to New York and to Istanbul.
LessGraced with well-chosen location eye candy, Tom Tykwer's biggest production to date is proficient but lacks the added tension and characterization to put it anywhere near the top tier of contempo action suspensers.
Full reviewLeaving behind the aromatic fantasy of Perfume, Tom Tykwer weighs in with a tense and exhilarating entry into the spy genre. This is an espionage thriller well worth investing in.
Full reviewSo undistinguished that the moments you remember best are those that you wish another, more original director had tackled.
Full reviewClive Owen makes a semi-believable hero, not performing too many feats that are physically unlikely. As the plucky DA, Naomi Watts wisely plays up her character's legal smarts and plays down the inevitable possibility that the two of them will fall in love.
Full reviewEurocentric bank-biz thriller starts with high principle but can't sustain interest.
Full reviewDespite being structured in an intriguing way -- bits of confusing action are shown first and explained later -- The International never finds its footing.
Full reviewPunctuated with bursts of explosive energy, this is a contained, cerebral film.
Full reviewFor all its serious intent, Tykwer’s ‘relevant’ thriller proves to be perilously naff.
Full reviewIt wants to be a smart, literate and provocative thinkpiece, but lacks the coherency, fluency, drama and urgency to achieve that.
Full reviewThe International is available to stream in Australia now on Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Prime Video Store.
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