Reviews by Matt

Sometimes a movie, completely by accident, is timely. Such is was with “The International.” The movie was made before all the banks needed bailouts and everyone hates them for being shady businesses. The movie was supposed to come out sometime last year, but was instead released in February in the middle of bailouts and an ecemomic crisis.

It’s been a long time since I saw this, February 16 to be precise, so the plot is a little fuzzy. But as the true test of a movie is how well you remember it later, here is what I can remember. Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) is a member of Interpool and is investigating one of the major international banks. When his partner is killed, He ends up working with Manhattan Assistant
District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) to bring down the bank.
Overall the movie is just so-so. The storyline, while timely, is not all that interesting and could have been done better. Owen and Watts do a good job, but fail to live up to past performances. With the exception of one scene, the action is not that good and even calling them action scenes is a stretch.

So why should you see this movie. The answer is simple; the scene in the Guggenheim. It is the best part of the movie, without question. They built a scale replica to shoot the shoot-out in the famed museum. It is one of the most awesome shoot-outs I have ever seen is a movie. The museum has a ramp that spirals up around the inside. The exhibits are on the wall and on the ramp and people can walk the ramp to look at them. This provided an interesting set piece for a shoot-out.
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So that is really all you need to know about the movie. If you really want to see the events leading up to this scene, its not a bad movie, but it gets overshadowed by that scene.

7 out of 10
Rated R for some sequences of violence and language.
118 min