The International

The movie was extremely intense don't walk away you will miss something and the sad part about it is this could happen very scary but yeah good movie

"What seems to us more important, more painful, and more unendurable is really not what is more important, more painful and more unendurable, but merely that which is closer to home. Everything distant, which for all its moans and muffled cries, its ruined lives and millions of victims, that does not threaten to come rolling up to our threshold today, we consider endurable and of tolerable dimensions." Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star as an obsessed Interpol investigator and the NYC DA based on actual facts of the effort to go after the International banker to terrorists. The bank CEO was fired in Europe one day, appeared as the head of the Bank of Ukraine the next morning. The genial family man banker defends his behavior with "if you get me, there are 100s waiting in line behind me to take my place." The profitability of war debt to control politicians, selling war armaments to both sides of a conflict, and the bankers who finance the sales is a chilling action thriller, against the architecture of modernist Stasi Germany Lyon Mussolini's Rome, run down NYC's Guggenheim Museum, cisterns below and Grand Bazaar roofs wedged between the medieval Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia of Istanbul. Bonus Features: full film commentary, making of feature, architectural sites, slide show of the actual bank under investigation. Would definitely recommend The International full film commentary, a refreshing to listen to literate conversation in the public domain akin to BBC Foyle's War series fact based murder mysteries woven around archives of the British Imperial Museum curated by Terry Charman historian, Mass Observation Project diaries of ordinary UK citizens from 1937 to the present, archival newspaper reports, radio broadcasts, police records and trial transcripts of UK pre-WWII through the Cold War. Humor, historical truth, secrecy, politics, envy vanity power maximizing profits, diplomacy sacrifice. FDR described Stalin as a humorous drinking partner, charming host and social butterfly who never kept a promise vs Churchill taciturn stiff upper lip who could be depended upon to keep his word. 5*

It is amazing how many reviewers here either didn't get this movie, or wish to rewrite it according to their own tastes. One complains, for example, that to be effective in this day the international bank involved should have been Lehman Brothers, as if he expected someone to write a good thriller about bundled mortgage securities! He fails to understand, apparently, that this movie is about a totally different global identity in existence today, the far more shadowy international bank that, as is said in the movie, the world's major nations will always need for money laundering, bribes, third world revolutionary support and weapons transactions. This is the subject behind this movie, and a valid one it of course is. Another reviewer professes confusion re the Clive Owen line in the movie about one sometimes meeting his destiny on the road one takes to avoid it. It was certainly clear, and reasonably eloquent as the Muller-Stahl character states, to me. In the context it was given, Owen was saying that the Muller-Stahl figure, a dedicated, 30 year hard-line Commie who with the collapse of that ideology in the early 90's had sold out to the capitalist system it was attacking, had now the chance to find some purpose to his life by using the very position he had taken in the corrupt, capitalist bank in question. In his accepting a path that allowed him to avoid trying to meet the original purpose of his life, he is now confronted with the opportunity to meet that very destiny he desired through supporting Owen in helping to defeat one of the more egregious symbols of that system. Owen does an excellent job in portraying a character who refuses to take that other road and give up his own, daunting purpose to bring down the bank he was originally assigned to do as a British operative. He is teamed with Watts, a New York-based Federal prosecutor, who's own role is just as dedicated if somewhat less detailed. There are the usual hard to swallow coincidences - the assassin the bank uses just happens to live in New York - and situations bordering on disbelief - why on earth would the bank's lead villain, already knowing that his chief lawyer-in-conspiracy has apparently been offed, allow himself to meet with a chief rival without an ample bodyguard? But the film more than makes up for these shortcomings by its intelligence, its topicality, and its visual excitement having to do with the capitalist world's 'power' architecture, though to include the Guggenheim Museum designed by the primarily Jeffersonian, anti-capitalist Frank Lloyd Wright, is a decided contradiction. Nevertheless, the gun fight scene that takes place so excitingly and shatteringly in that building can be said to be symbolic of how the modern global system has destroyed such earlier, more individualistic and pastoral ideologies. All in all one of the best international thrillers offered this decade, and worthy of at least 4 stars!

Sophisticated story plot, with aggressive action...aka like,... Live Free or Die Hard & Equalizer 2 & 3.

Tom Twyker has made a beautiful film, each scene is a pleasure to watch, while at the same time the film has a density and a rhythm that draws you in from the first five minutes until the very end. It combines depth and high adrenaline with amazing action scenes in fantastic locations. I don't want to spoil the fun of watching it for the first time (I've seen it three times already), so just let me say that the film contains the best shoot-out of any thriller on the past 20 years. "Heat", by Michael Mann, pales by comparison. Plus my wife and daughters also loved it, it's not just a mindless string of violence, on the contrary. I highly recommend it, both as a fast-paced action film and as a "thinking man's thriller".

Arrivato nei tempi previsti questo articolo è fantastico.. un thriller mozzafiato che tiene incollati alla poltrona fino alla fine. Consigliato

No tienen idea de lo que se pierden. Véanla.

Film molto bello con intrighi loschi a livello internazionale con un po di sparatoria a metà film.Clive Owen da spessore alla pellicola.Luca Barbareschi appare in una piccola parte tra l'altro molto apprezzata .Consigliato.

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