Clive Owen and Naomi Watts play investigators trying to bring down a huge and highly corrupt multinational bank that is helping to finance world terrorism in this new film from the director of Run Lola Run. What follows is the usual line-up of shady negotiations, chases, double-crosses and assassinations that are typical of any thriller involving corrupt organisations.Sadly there is very little to differentiate this from any other such film, and it all ultimately leads to a distinctly unsatisfying ending. Whilst not a bad movie, there's not much to recommend either, beyond some beautiful cinematography and a very impressive and enjoyable action scene in the Guggenheim Museum in New York - and even the action scene doesn't make all that much sense in the context of the plot. Said plot is neither particularly interesting or original, although I will give it a little credit - it was refreshing to see a film where there was absolutely no romantic development between the male and female leads.
VERDICT: Stylish but unsatisfying.
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