Clive Owen Shoots 'Em Up in 'The International' Trailer
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Remember how Clive Owen showed up in The Bourne Identity as a fellow/rival assassin to Matt Damon's butt-kicking amnesiac? After watching the trailer for his new film, The International, I feel like director Tom Tykwer decided that he wanted to make something like that guy's own movie.
Okay, so maybe it's a bit more generic than that, with Owen playing an Interpol agent teaming up with a partner/potential love interest/possible traitor* (Naomi Watts) to take on some big bad bank with ties to all sorts of global espionage, and probably some ridiculous withdrawal fees to boot.
I'm not so hot on the prospect of the February "dumping ground" release date (see: Jumper, Vantage Point), but it'll be nice to have a more testosterone-fueled offering to counter-program all that other Valentine's Day fare. Besides, if Tykwer (Run Lola Run) decides that a big-budget thriller is worth his while, maybe it'll show past the paycheck -- I mean, if the director of Swingers can show us...
*Come on, he's even fed that adage of "Everyone is involved." Think about it...
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9-12-2008 @ 1:16PM
Kevin said...
This looks awful. Maybe its just the trailer (which is truly terrible..."If you think you can stop them...THINK AGAIN!!!), but its been a long time since I haven't been the least bit excited for a movie with Clive Owen in it. Normally he's enough to at least give me hope that it'll be decent.
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