The Tourist

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

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The Tourist

Synopsis

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elsie on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

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Cast

Johnny DeppFrank Tupelo
Angelina JolieElise Clifton-Ward
Paul BettanyInspector John Acheson
Timothy DaltonChief Inspector Jones
Steven BerkoffReginald Shaw
Rufus SewellThe Englishman
Christian De SicaColonnello Lombardi
Alessio BoniSergente Cerato
Daniele PecciTenente Narduzzi
Giovanni GuidelliTenente Tommassini

Recommendations

90
Movieline
If Elise and Frank are opaque to each other, they're opaque for a reason, as, sadly, lovers sometimes are. (Come to think of it, this picture has more in common with "The Lives of Others" than you might expect.)
67
Tampa Bay Times
The Tourist is less likely to be remembered for its cat-and-mouse machinations than for the beautiful people carrying them out.
50
Orlando Sentinel
The script piles the preposterous on top of the absurd and the film's thin charms dissipate, revealing the creaking movie star contraption underneath.
50
Entertainment Weekly
The Tourist isn't a debacle, but it's a caper that's fatally low on carbonation.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
There's a way to make a movie like The Tourist, but Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck doesn't find that way.
50
Chicago Tribune
A facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on "Charade," and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen's 1963 picture.
40
Variety
Like a beautifully tailored suit that starts to smell funny after a few minutes, this sumptuous but stultifying lark sets up a quasi-Hitchcockian intrigue between two strangers abroad, but smothers any thrills or sparks in a haze of self-regard.
40
Empire
If you just want to look with admiration and Johnny and/or Angelina – and why wouldn't you? – this offers the full scenic tour, but it's one of those frustrating almost-good films which never really catches fire.