The Tourist

I have recently watched a film called the Tourist, it was out in 2010. Like two Persian cats who have been drugged and somehow trained to walk side by side down the street, those exotic A-listers Johnny Deppand Angelina Jolie make a curious spectacle. These pampered exquisites star in a glossy, silly, occasionally amusing caper set in Venice – remade from the 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer, and borrowing a little from Polanski's Frantic, with something of Live and Let Die in the chase sequences. 


Jolie plays a haughty, beautiful woman of mystery with lips as big as a Dalí sofa. She is first seen sipping a coffee in a Paris cafe while under surveillance from some flics hunched in an unmarked van – their leering sweatiness signalling, naturally, that they are about to be royally outwitted. She receives word from her top international criminal lover, instructing her to travel to Venice and make friends with any guy with his approximate height and build, just to convince the cops that it's him in heavy disguise. So Jolie swans off and chats up a bedazzled tourist – a long-haired, goateed maths teacher played by Depp. She intends to get rid of him once he's served his purpose. But that special, indefinable spark between them keeps the pair together in dangerous situations and tourist locations. 


I thought the film was very average however the thing that i thought was very good about the film was the ending of it, and how it was very unexpected. So what i thought i would do is, do some reasearch and see what other thought about the film, here is what some what said about the film; "The combination of two lazy, smug performances from its over-confident stars and a director mismatched with his material make for 2010's biggest 'It seemed like a good idea at the time...' dud". Another review quoted; "The tone is lightly comic, the dialogue flirty and amusing but the performances are unengaged. There's no floor of reality, as there always was in a Hitchcock film, even his light confections".