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January 17, 2011

The Tourist, Depp and Jolie + Venice? Disaster

Alexander Pearce is an international fugitive who has been embezzling hundreds of billions of pounds. Interpol England under the leadership of Superintendent John Acheson (Bettany) to supervise the movements of a woman named Elise (Jolie) who allegedly close to Pearce. Elise receive guidance through a letter so he could meet with Pearce as well as to outwit the police who follow him. Elise follow instructions to take the train to the City of Venice and sit with someone who figures similar to Pearce, namely a tourist named Frank Tupelo (Depp). Elise also invited Frank to stay at a luxury hotel in Venice. British police who originally wanted to capture Frank realized that if it turns out they were swindled, but one group of gangsters who got the wrong info just wanted to catch Frank.

This film is a remake of French film supposedly titled Anthony Zimmer (2005). I do not know what the original movies, one glaring weakness is the plot of this movie is bad. The idea is actually quite interesting story even if not original, but the script is not able to provide enough elements of mystery and suspense is expected. Everything was flat and boring. Even an intelligent audience can already guess the ending movie early. Amat too easy. Who thought the plot would be this bad? The manuscript was also compounded by bad dialogue is very silly and unnecessary. Tempo is slow and boring movie, the story which tends seriously, lack of action scenes, the ending is very predictable, and bad dialogue, you want to comment what else?

The combination of class stars Depp and Jolie seemed to promise a special film, but apart from a bad script, their appearance also did not bite. No sedikipun the chemistry between them. It's ridiculous, Depp and Jolie's acting is obviously too weak for the characters they played. Location setting in the city of Venice water also promising a panorama of the beautiful and exotic but in fact neither. The corners of the city of Venice is selected not at all attractive and looks quiet. City of Venice was never seen as boring as this in a movie.

It is amazing why the "tone" his films tend to be serious and do not lead to comedy. Acting and silly dialogue and plot are easily anticipated it seems more appropriate for full movie comedy. It was surprising also stars Depp and Jolie's classmates want to be involved in the film. With all the weaknesses of the script and dialogue, casting two big stars of this era, as well as budget of $ 100 million is not wrong if the film is worth mentioning as one of worst movies produced this year. "$ 20 million (facial surgery) you choose a face like this?". "It's how I look?". 'Hmm .. not bad. "Unfortunately not for this movie.
 
The Tourist (2010)

Director                 : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Producer               : Graham King / Tim Headington / Roger Birnbaum
Scriptwriter           : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck / Christopher Mc Quarrie / Fellowes Julian / Jerome
                             Salle (original movie)
Cast                     : Johnny Depp / Angelina Jolie / Paul Bettany / Timothy Dalton
Illustration Music   : James Newton Howard
Stylist Camera      : John Seale
Editing                  : Hutshing Joe / Patricia Rommel
Studio                   : GK Films / Spyglass Entertainment / Studio Canal / Media Realtivity
Distributor            : Columbia Pictures
Length                  : 103 minutes
Budget                 : $ 100 million

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