Internationally Rubbish

So today I finally went to see The International because I didn't manage to go last week cos I got to the cinema late. Silly me.

It's a difficult film to describe really. Clive "I'm British and I'm angry" Owen plays the main character, who's British and he's angry. He also has a history. Just read his file. The character he plays is Louis Salinger, an Interpol agent who has a a personal vendetta against a bank. Maybe they charged him an overdraft fee. So totally clichéd character then.

Next up is Naomi "I'm in the film because I'm blonde" Watts. Her character is a New York attorney or something, it's not really made clear and you don't really care to be honest. She's got a husband and a kid but you don't care about them either. In fact, you don't really care about anything she says or does in the film. Or ever. In life.

The film begins with two men in a car talking. They say some spy-like stuff, it's all very intruiging. Then one of them starts smoking a cigarette and offers one to the other guy. That did it for me. The film was ruined. I thought it would just be a succession of clichés with a nonsensical plot tying it all together. And it was.

One of the men then gets out of the car and starts walking away. He makes a quick phone call, reels off some espionage clichés and then has a heart attack.

OR DID HE!?

At first glance it appears to be a heart attack, the highly trained coroner even thinks so. But our favourite angry, "I breathe heavily through my nose" Interpol agent knows better and turns over the corpse of his dead friend to find a little hole in the back of his neck. Like the coroner wouldn't look at his back. Although apparantly he didn't.

Now I don't want to spoil the film too much for anyone who was thinking about going to see it but I do want to say this. Don't go and see it, it's rubbish. The characters are dull and predictable, the plot is dull, nosensical and predictable and the only good bit in the film is when they have a big shoot out in a museum. Admittedly it is a good shoot out though. Some good violence, which is always a plus.