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Rotten Watch: THE INTERNATIONAL
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DevelopmentArrested said:Currently sitting at less than 60%.
The trailer makes the film look pretty bad and Naomi Watts apparently is terrible in it.
BUT.
According to most of the reviews so far, this movie contains a 15 minute gun-fight in the Guggenheim Museum. One review claims that this gun-fight is (next to Heat) the best ever put on film.
Its a show about an ... evil bank. The entire movie theater is likely filled with tin hatters expecting this to be a message from someone who escapes and made a movie to tell the story.
kiweinatee
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i saw it yesterday, and went in not expecting anything. it was more interesting that i thought it would be and the guggenheim scene WAS awesome. only other thing is that they definitely could have cut 25 or so minutes from the film, because it dragged.
Houston3000
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I saw it on Valentines Day, it was confusing and probably one of the worse movies I've seen in the theaters in a while. That's not to say it was horrible, I've just see alot of good movies, this one was just at most mediocre. I'm trying to think of a scene I even thought was memorable or interesting - I can't, not even the big set piece chase or gun fight scenes. The Guggenheim Museum gun fight scene was way too long.
Barely anyone had any comments, huh. Well, not too surprising.
It's your typical international procedural intrigue plot for the first hour or so, and at all times seems far more concerned with hyper-stylized interactions between ruggedly handsome aristocratic businessmen in lavishly sparse modern sets than actually telling much of a story. The story hinges on a few key sentences spoken by elderly foreigners with thick accents, so who knows what it's about, but that's not terribly important.
The only thing that really matters is the shootout at the Guggenheim, where all of the energy not expended on casting GQ models in expensive suits seems to have been directed. It's a good shootout, and keeps the film from being absolutely dreadful and pointless, but isn't one for the history books.
Clive Owen doesn't shave and makes an intense face at the camera a lot. Naomi Watts doesn't get naked. That about covers it.
It's your typical international procedural intrigue plot for the first hour or so, and at all times seems far more concerned with hyper-stylized interactions between ruggedly handsome aristocratic businessmen in lavishly sparse modern sets than actually telling much of a story. The story hinges on a few key sentences spoken by elderly foreigners with thick accents, so who knows what it's about, but that's not terribly important.
The only thing that really matters is the shootout at the Guggenheim, where all of the energy not expended on casting GQ models in expensive suits seems to have been directed. It's a good shootout, and keeps the film from being absolutely dreadful and pointless, but isn't one for the history books.
Clive Owen doesn't shave and makes an intense face at the camera a lot. Naomi Watts doesn't get naked. That about covers it.
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