Synopsis
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
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Cast
- Clive OwenLouis Salinger
- Naomi WattsEleanor Whitman
- Armin Mueller-StahlWilhelm Wexler
- Ulrich ThomsenJonas Skarssen
- Brían F. O'ByrneThe Consultant
- Patrick BaladiMartin White
- Jay VilliersFrancis Ehames
- James RebhornNew York D.A.
- Michel VolettiViktor Haas
- Jack McGeeDetective Bernie Ward
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 75
Boston Globe
I can promise you a fairly good thriller with mixed-bag elements: preposterous plot, smartly elegant direction, one of the worst recent performances by a major actress, and a dynamite stick of an action scene that can stand close to the greats (the car chase in "The French Connection," the single-take battle sequence in "Children of Men") and from which the movie never really recovers. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
There's something almost endearingly out of sync about the sleek but now dated Euro-thriller The International. - 63
Chicago Tribune
While its globe-trotting itinerary recalls the mad whirl of a "Bourne" picture, nothing about this film's style resembles the second or third "Bourne" outings (which I loved). - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Where "Run Lola Run" was like a perpetual-motion machine, The International seems to forever be stopping in its own tracks. Tykwer takes coffee breaks to explain the convoluted and dicey plot. - 63
Miami Herald
An hour after seeing it, you may not remember what The International was about. But you'll certainly remember that shootout. That is something to behold. - 58
The A.V. Club
Ultimately feel so empty and forgettable. - 50
Austin Chronicle
I couldn't help feeling that The International was stuck in second gear, like it couldn't decide whether to be fun or meaningful and so settled for being neither.
