The International

[Ambulance Chaser]

Anyone else excited about Clive Owen's new movie, The International? Sounds like we'll get to see what he might have looked like playing James Bond.

 

[mack11211]

Mildly excited.

Plus: based on the early 90s scandal of The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). When I think of BCCI, I think of Giando, a mob-friendly restaurant at the foot of Broadway in Brooklyn, which through some BCCI link made the cover of the NY Post.

Minus: Meh reviews.

 

[Invicta]

Yes and I intend to see it sometime this weekend.

I kind of chuckled at the plot until someone reminded me that Goldman Sachs has it's own private security force...

 

[Flambeur]

Ugh, the premise sounds absolutely idiotic.

 

[holymadness]

Ebert gave it three stars, as in 'it more or less fulfilled the entertaining requirements of a silly action movie where things only happen because the plot demands them.'

Matinee movie, in other words.

 

[Flambeur]

i absolutely refuse to watch it even when it on TNT or something.

It just sounds painfully stupid. Kind of like Antitrust.

 

[BDC2823]

I'm a fan of Clive Owen's work so I definitely am looking forward to this one.

 

[stevenvg]

hopefully he'll replace craig as jb soon.

 

[Joffrey]

It always looked daft in the trailers. NPR this morning just trashed it.

 

[agp]

Not going to watch it... Looks somewhat, for the lack of a better word, stupid. Come on, trying to take down a bank? That's like many other movies, except they replace the government with bank.

 

[Ritchee]

I'm going to see it at matinee tomorrow.

 

[blackdarkeye]

these types of movies never fly man, stupid thriller trying to act realisticand modern, its stupid

 

[Edward Appleby]

Originally Posted by Invicta

I kind of chuckled at the plot until someone reminded me that Goldman Sachs has it's own private security force...

So are mall cops mercenaries in your book too?

 

[7even]

clive owen should just stick to bmw films

 

[Invicta]

Originally Posted by Edward Appleby

So are mall cops mercenaries in your book too?

Sarcasm, learn it.

So I saw the movie on Sunday, it gets a 1 &1/2 "mehs". I wouldn't say embarassingly bad, because the writers obviously gave Clive nothing to work with and he somehow manages to pull a two dimensional character out of what was a one dimensional plot, but yea, underwhelming.

Taken was infinitely better than this not quite festering turd.