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 review
The International
From 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.
2009118 minsUSA, Germany
ActionDramaThriller
- Director:
- Tom Tykwer ('Perfume: The Story of a Murderer', 'Run, Lola, Run')
- Writer:
- Eric Singer
- Cast:
- Clive OwenNaomi WattsAngelina AucelloArmin Mueller-StahlUlrich ThomsenJack McGee
The International / Reviews
Total Film
Leaving 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 reviewThe New York Times
So undistinguished that the moments you remember best are those that you wish another, more original director had tackled.
Full review
Roger Ebert
Clive 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 review
New Zealand Herald
Eurocentric bank-biz thriller starts with high principle but can't sustain interest.
Full review
Los Angeles Times
Despite being structured in an intriguing way -- bits of confusing action are shown first and explained later -- The International never finds its footing.
Full review
Hollywood Reporter
Punctuated with bursts of explosive energy, this is a contained, cerebral film.
Full review
Empire Magazine
For all its serious intent, Tykwer’s ‘relevant’ thriller proves to be perilously naff.
Full review
Dominion Post
It wants to be a smart, literate and provocative thinkpiece, but lacks the coherency, fluency, drama and urgency to achieve that.
Full review
Share