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"It won't be remembered as a classic thriller, but The International is not bad. I know, that's not glowing. But these days when you're looking through the aisles of Blockbuster and see only lame sequels or dime-a-dozen sadistic slasher indies, you could do much worse. This is NOT your standard globe-hopping James Bond wannabe. In fact, the DVD cover is all wrong. It should have a picture with Clive Owen, staring at a pile of newspaper clippings with his reading glasses on. That's why I liked this movie. Clive used to be a beat cop, but he isn't an expert marksman with a wake of blood behind him. He's just a smart guy trying to bring bad guys to justice. The final clips during credits were pretty good... shows the futility of some battles. Rent it, don't buy it. "
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"This is really one of the worst films I've seen this year. I had heard it pretty much universally panned by critics but I really didn't expect it to be that bad. As bad as I had heard this movie was, I still couldn't help my curiosity with director Tom Tykwer. I would have to say I consider myself a fan of his, even after this last effort. I would also say that the shortcomings of this film are primarily the fault of the screenplay and not the direction. The writer was Eric Singer and this was his first major motion picture. The plot was extremely choppy and many of the key points made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Some of the conspiratorial points of this film were not only left unexplained but the portions of which were explained proved them to be completely unnecessary. The dialogue was even worse than the plot. At one point, Naomi Watt's character is confronting Clive Owen's character about details in his past. He very gruffly (Clive Owenly) responds, "I'm not gonna talk abou ... "
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"Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek has filed a long dispatch from the Berlin Film Festival, where she’s seen and loved two films that have been widely derided by the bulk of the press corps: Tom Tykwer’s opening night flick The International, and Lucas Moodysson’s Michelle Williams-starring Mammoth. Being on the wrong side of the angry mob has led Zacharek to contemplate what she perceives as a pronounced anti-Hollywood bias among critics at the festival. First, w/r/t The International: I began hearing the anti-Tinseltown drumbeat last Thursday, when German director Tom Tykwer’s strange and beautifully made thriller The International…yes, The International is a Hollywood picture in the sense that it has relatively big stars and a major studio (Columbia) behind it. But the movie I saw and loved, even in my jetlagged state, at the press screening last Thursday felt “Hollywood” to me only in the best sense: Tykwer obviously had some money to work with here, and he spent some of i "
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