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There’s a way to make a movie like "The Tourist," but Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck doesn’t find that way. Here is a romantic comedy crossed with a crime thriller, shot in Paris and Venice, involving a glamorous mystery woman and a math teacher from Wisconsin. The plot is preposterous. So what you need is a movie that floats with bemusement above the cockamamie, and actors who tease each other.

As the mystery woman, Angelina Jolie does her darnedest. She gets the joke. Here is a movie in which she begins in a Paris cafe, eludes cops by dashing into the Metro, takes an overnight train to Venice, picks up a strange man ( Johnny Depp ) and checks them both into the Royal Danelli without one wrinkle on her dress or one hair out of place. And is sexy as hell. This is the Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly role, and she knows it.

Depp is in the Cary Grant role of the obliging, love-struck straight man who finds himself neck deep in somebody else’s troubles. In theory, these two should engage in witty flirtation and droll understatement. In practice, no one seems to have alerted Depp that the movie is a farce. I refer to farce in the dictionary sense, of course: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Depp, however, plays his math teacher seriously and with a touch of the morose.

The plot involves — oh, hell, you know, the usual mystery man who has stolen millions from a gangster and gone into hiding while smuggling instructions to Jolie, his lover, instructing her to take the train to Venice, etc. And the cops from Scotland Yard who are tailing her in hopes of nailing the guy. And the gangster and his hit men who are also on the thief’s trail. And chases over the rooftops of Venice, dinner on a train, a scene in a casino, designer gowns and a chase through the canals with Jolie at the controls of a motor taxi, and...

Well, there was really only one cliche left, and I was grateful when it arrived. You know how a man in a high place will look down and see a canvas awning that might break his fall, and he jumps into it? Yep. And it’s shielding a fruit cart at the open-air market and he lands on the oranges and runs off, leaving the cart owner shaking his fist. This is a rare example of the Vertical Fruit Cart Scene, in which the cart is struck not from the side but from the top.

The supporting roles are filled by excellent actors, and it’s a sign of the movie’s haplessness that none of them make a mark. You have Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton as cops, Steven Berkoff as the gangster and Rufus Sewell as "The Englishman," who must be important because he hangs around without any apparent purpose. Once in London, I saw Berkoff play a cockroach in his adaptation of Kafka’s "Metamorphosis." It might have helped if he’d tried the cockroach again.

A depressing element is how much talent "The Tourist" has behind the camera. Writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made " The Lives of Others ," which won the 2007 Oscar for best foreign film. The screenplay is by Christopher McQuarrie (Oscar winner for " The Usual Suspects ") and Julian Fellowes (Oscar winner for " Gosford Park "), along with von Donnersmarck. It’s based on a French film written by Jerome Salle , which was nominated for a Cesar. All three "Tourist" writers seem to have used their awards as doorstops.

It doesn’t matter that the plot is absurd. That goes with the territory. But if it’s not going to be nonstop idiotic action, then the acting and dialogue need a little style and grace and kidding around. Jolie plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality. Depp plays his Wisconsin math teacher as a man waiting for the school bell to ring so he can go bowling. The other actors are concealed in the shadows of their archetypes. Cary Grant would have known how to treat a lady.

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The Tourist (2010)

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It takes a big man to hold the screen level when Angelina Jolie is around — usually the whole thing just tilts in her direction as soon as she struts into the frame. Her partner in crazy-time fame, Brad Pitt, helped keep the balance in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” their only film together. And now Johnny Depp tries to do much the same in “The Tourist.” Going for muted, eyeliner- and nearly irony-free, he plays an ordinary American who bumbles into a Continental intrigue, which looks like a film you’ve seen before, because you have.

You know that movie. It’s the one in which Cary Grant and Grace Kelly don’t just travel by train, they also trade knowing looks in the first-class dining car as the waiter fills their glasses, and a shady type secretly takes their photo. The people behind “The Tourist” would like you to flash back to 1955 — as Ms. Jolie’s wardrobe of long gloves suggests — a risky strategy, given that you actually might. The truth is that it takes an exceptional director to prevent an entertainment as flimsy as this from collapsing under its own weightlessness. Alfred Hitchcock pulled it off with Grant and Kelly in “To Catch a Thief,” a bauble that sparkles like a jewel because of the world-class scenery, its stars included, and because of, well, the directing.

Stargazing is the only reason bonbons like “The Tourist” are made, dreams of box office bonanzas aside. But stars need just the right setting and a director who knows how to make them shine, as Steven Soderbergh does with Mr. Pitt and George Clooney in the “Ocean’s” franchise. The director also needs to hold his own, which, from the generic look and feel of “The Tourist,” clearly wasn’t the case with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. He does put personality into the occasional scene, including a mysterious, hushed interlude in which Ms. Jolie stands with her back to the camera as Mr. Depp creeps up from behind — lover or stalker, you’re not initially sure which — before pulling her close for a hungry kiss.

It’s a nice idyll among a wash of clichés that include Russian muscle in service to a big meanie, Shaw (Steven Berkoff), whose quest for stolen loot leads him to Elise Ward (Ms. Jolie). A mystery woman of rare ability (she can pick a lock and wear off-the-shoulder gowns), she eludes Shaw while dodging assorted law enforcement agencies, including Scotland Yard, where Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton curl stiff upper lips. Elise pauses long enough to slide into a train seat opposite Frank Tupelo (Mr. Depp), who, after gulping at his good fortune, explains that he’s a vacationing Wisconsin math teacher (as if!). Dinner leads to drinks leads to complications, including hailstorming bullets and a few sluggish boat chases in the Venice canals.

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Hollywood has a long history of collecting (and devouring) European directors, but Mr. von Donnersmarck was an odd choice for froth like this. A few years ago he attracted some attention for “The Lives of Others,” a 2006 drama about an East German couple being spied on by a Stasi officer. Here, his main job seems to have been to find new and flattering ways to shoot Ms. Jolie as she catwalks from Paris to Venice in soaring heels. He tries to invest this adoration with some self-conscious wit, mostly by having all the men in the movie gawp at Elise as if she were as much a supernova as the one playing her. But all this genuflection — she parts one crowd as Moses does the Red Sea — feels forced rather than mischievous.

It must be tough for Ms. Jolie to find roles that fit. Off screen she remains a fascinating presence, but on screen she now tends to overwhelm her roles and even her movies. Like every memorable screen star, she still has a face you can get lost in, with its push-pull of hard, jutting angles and well-endowed lips. It’s a face built for extremes, though early on she could also make it work for somewhat smaller, human-scaled roles that were nonetheless tricky for her. Superheroes and superfreaks have long been her truer calling, one reason that “The Tourist” seemed vaguely promising. When she first appears in a come-hither outfit and a small private smile, she looks ready for liftoff. She never ignites, and neither does the movie.

Mr. Depp doesn’t fare better with a role that forces him to play meek and disappointingly mild, despite a few screenwriter-supplied tics. (Mr. von Donnersmarck shares writing credit with Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes.) A brilliant character actor and accidental movie star, Mr. Depp has rarely been persuasive playing average. He likes tunneling into his characters, preferably under a thick smear of makeup and flamboyant threads, which is why he’s never made sense in mainstream romance. There’s no place for him to hide with Frank, so he stands around trying to look hapless as Ms. Jolie grabs the lead. There’s definitely some amusement in watching her come to his rescue, a role reversal the movie only flirts with. But oh how much more fun it would have been if Mr. Depp had really played the girl, eyeliner and all.

“The Tourist” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Bloodless violence.

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Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; written by Mr. Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie and Julian Fellowes; director of photography, John Seale; edited by Joe Hutshing and Patricia Rommel; music by James Newton Howard; production design by Jon Hutman; costumes by Colleen Atwood; produced by Graham King, Tim Headington, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jonathan Glickman; released by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 43 minutes.

WITH: Angelina Jolie (Elise Clifton Ward), Johnny Depp (Frank Tupelo), Paul Bettany (Inspector John Acheson), Timothy Dalton (Chief Inspector Jones), Steven Berkoff (Reginald Shaw) and Rufus Sewell (the Englishman).

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Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Venice -- what more could you want from a movie? Quite a lot, actually.

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Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Venice — what more could you want from a movie? Quite a lot, actually, judging by “ The Tourist ,” an all-too-resistible Euro-chic trifle that marks an undistinguished Hollywood debut for German talent Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck . Like a beautifully tailored suit that starts to smell funny after a few minutes, this sumptuous but stultifying lark sets up a quasi-Hitchcockian intrigue between two strangers abroad, but smothers any thrills or sparks in a haze of self-regard. The considerable eye candy of its stars and locations aside, Sony release may not rack up much B.O. mileage domestically, though international prospects look healthy.

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Admittedly, there was little reason to expect von Donnersmarck to spin this work-for-hire into a sophomore outing as accomplished as his knockout 2006 writing-directing debut, “The Lives of Others.” And he scarcely deserves all the blame for a production whose creative team has seen more revolving doors than Venice’s famous Hotel Danieli (shown to nice effect here). A remake of 2005’s little-seen French thriller “Anthony Zimmer,” the film was conceived as a vehicle for Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise (who was briefly replaced by Sam Worthington), just as von Donnersmarck was preceded by Bharat Nalluri in the director’s chair. Factor in a much-rewritten screenplay (Julian Fellowes, Christopher McQuarrie and the helmer receive onscreen credit), and one almost begins to admire the final product for at least achieving a state of marginal coherence.

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One morning in Paris (France, we’re helpfully informed), the exquisite Elise Ward (Jolie) strolls down to her favorite cafe and receives a letter from her lover, Alexander Pearce, whom we eventually learn is an elusive, high-class thief wanted for stealing $744 million. Her actions are closely monitored by a team of Scotland Yard detectives led by Inspector Acheson (Paul Bettany, high-strung), whose determination to collar Pearce borders on obsession.

Following Pearce’s exact instructions, Elise hops a Venice-bound train, where she subtly puts the moves on Frank Tupelo (Depp), a random, slightly rumpled American traveler whose provenance (“a math teacher from Wisconsin”) is the script’s idea of a joke worth repeating. Employing an arsenal of suggestive glances and coy one-liners, Elise contrives to throw the cops off the scent by making them think Frank is Pearce.

Something feels amiss with this wrong-man setup from the get-go. With his longish hair, signature goatee and vaguely European bearing, Depp is precisely no one’s idea of an American average Joe, and the choice immediately raises eyebrows as well as questions about the film’s intentions: As Elise verbally seduces Frank the Yank in a first-class dining car, are we watching a luxuriant transcontinental thriller or a sly, self-aware comic exercise? Are Depp and Jolie trying to channel Cary Grant and Eva Marie-Saint in “North by Northwest,” or is something weirder and more inscrutable afoot?

No answers are immediately forthcoming, and the film’s pulse quickens only modestly once the two arrive in Venice, where Elise is torn between her devotion to the unseen Pearce and her sudden, unaccountable feelings for Frank. Complicating matters further is the arrival of an English crime boss ( Steven Berkoff , enlivening the proceedings with real menace) on Pearce’s trail, initiating a series of unexciting chases — sometimes by boat, sometimes over rooftops — in which Elise and Frank keep alternating between rescuer and rescued, their identities a continual matter of suspicion for the other characters and the audience.

Presumably, viewers are meant to find all this mystery thrillingly romantic, and by dint of its setting alone, “The Tourist” is not without a certain elegance. As he demonstrated in “The Lives of Others,” von Donnersmarck is a classicist with a clean, unfussy visual style and a refreshing aversion to the frenetic editing schemes so in vogue among contempo action-thrillers; he also tends to lean too heavily on music (an alternately jittery and swoony concoction by James Newton Howard). As for Venice, the world’s most improbably gorgeous city has rarely looked better on film, lensed in sweeping overhead shots that accentuate its sun-drenched beauty as opposed to its after-dark decay.

Nor should one disregard the pleasures of watching two glamorous actors in motion, whether it’s Jolie entering a ballroom coiffed like Sophia Loren, or Depp riffing on his own debonair persona. But what lingers long after “The Tourist” has faded is the sense that, amid all the rehashes and behind-the-scenes musical chairs, someone decided that Jolie and Depp’s combined star wattage, not to be confused with actual romantic chemistry, would be enough — not only to carry the script through its shopworn duplicitous doings, but to make audiences care in the first place.

• Production: A Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a GK Films and Columbia Pictures presentation in association with Spyglass Entertainment of a GK Films and Birnbaum/Barber production in association with StudioCanal. Produced by Graham King, Tim Headington, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman. Executive producers, Lloyd Phillips, Bahman Naraghi, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern. Co-producers, Denis O'Sullivan, Jeffery Nachmanoff. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Screenplay, von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarrie, Julian Fellowes, based on the film "Anthony Zimmer" directed, written by Jerome Salle.
• Crew: Camera (Technicolor, Panavision widescreen), John Seale; editors, Joe Hutshing, Patricia Rommel; music, James Newton Howard; production designer, Jon Hutman; supervising art director, Marco Trentini; art director, Susanna Codognato; set designer, Antonio Tarolla; set decorator, Anna Pinnock; costume designer, Colleen Atwood; sound (DTS/SDDS/Dolby Digital), Mark Ulano; supervising sound editors, Wylie Stateman, Renee Tondelli; re-recording mixers, Scott Millan, David Parker; special effects supervisor, Dominic Tuohy; visual effects supervisor, Ted Rae; visual effects, Peerless Camera Co., Filmworks/FX, Zen Haven Studios, VFX Collective, At the Post; stunt coordinator, Simon Crane; line producers, David Nichols (Italy), John Bernard (France); assistant director, Steve E. Andrews; casting, Susie Figgis. Reviewed at Sony Studios, Culver City, Dec. 8, 2010. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 102 MIN.
• With: Frank Tupelo - Johnny Depp Elise Ward - Angelina Jolie Inspector John Acheson - Paul Bettany Chief Inspector Jones - Timothy Dalton Reginald Shaw - Steven Berkoff The Englishman - Rufus Sewell Colonnello Lombardi - Christian De Sica With: Alessio Boni, Raoul Bova, Daniele Pecci. (English, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish dialogue)

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• Richard Roeper.com Richard Roeper "Sure, the plot is preposterous, but the two stars look great, the scenery is spectacular and the supporting cast is a hoot."
• Dallas Morning News Chris Vognar The Tourist merely asks you to sit back and enjoy the ride, and then makes that task a breeze.
• Rolling Stone Peter Travers In a year of craptaculars, The Tourist deserves burial at the bottom of the 2010 dung heap.
• Film.com Laremy Legel To battle the logic of the film would be to swat flies in a hurricane.
• Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz Star power can cover up a multitude of shortcomings in a film. Turns out stupidity isn't one of them.
• Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer To see Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist is like watching a chemistry experiment gone horribly wrong.
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson So deficient in the genre's essentials - such as witty dialogue, intriguing characters and surprising yet credible plot turns - that you're embarrassed for everyone involved.
• MovieFreak.com Sara Michelle Fetters While I did enjoy much of Depp's performance, and while Jolie emanated a radiant beauty that jumped right off the screen, neither generated a bright enough spark to make up for the script's numerous shortcoming.
• UGO Jordan Hoffman My mother is going to love this movie.
• Slate Dana Stevens As for Depp, his character makes so little sense that he can hardly be blamed for blinking his way through the movie with an expression of blank-faced puzzlement that recalls Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice-presidential debate.
• Detroit News Tom Long Jolie! Depp! Romantic locations! Intrigue! Some movies sound too good to be true. The Tourist is one of them.
• Chicago Reader J. R. Jones Unfortunately, this is one of those movies with a twist ending that turns a character inside out, revealing earlier scenes to be essentially fraudulent and more or less invalidating one's emotional investment in the story.
• MSN Movies Glenn Kenny ... it's a bit of a shock to see this caliber of star power and big-budget production and location juice... yield such dismal results.
• Washington Post John Anderson The high wattage of stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie cast the film in a spotlight that would be unflattering for most movies, least of all an insubstantial, tension-free thriller like this.
• New York Times Manohla Dargis When she [Angelina Jolie] first appears in a come-hither outfit and a small private smile, she looks ready for liftoff. She never ignites, and neither does the movie.
• San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle There are all kinds of bad movies in the world, but it's really only stardom that can create the exact variety of cinematic abortion we find in "The Tourist."
• Beliefnet Nell Minow Jolie's role in this film is somewhere between femme fatale and Girl from Ipanema -- she spends a lot of time walking slowly while those she passes say, "Ahhhhhhh."
• New York Post Lou Lumenick Von Donnersmarck, who brilliantly depicted government surveillance in East Berlin before the fall of the wall in his earlier German film, astonishingly can't even find a way to make Interpol's spying interesting here.
• Tribune News Service Roger Moore A creaking "star vehicle" for two stars who should have known better, and maybe had a little chemistry.

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With a dash of humor and some Hitchcock-esque directorial flourishes, the film’s scenario could have been fun. But the production takes the lazy approach and leaves the viewer palpably aware of it.

But even with its good-looking cast and locations, “The Tourist” is too shallow, too flat, and ultimately forgettable.

The Tourist is not an absolute debacle, and was able to entertain a tolerant audience. [Full review in Spanish]

The action scenes are sluggish when they should punch, the leads seem indifferent when we’re to believe they’re falling in love, and there’s a sense of burden as the plot twists and turns.

The Tourist had all the elements in place to truly be a thing of beauty. Which makes it such a shame the script is so predictable and ugly.

The chemistry is nonexistent, the supporting roles don't come any more generic, and too many laughable occasions arise from the characters laboring dramatically to be intense.

Jolie, while certainly able to pull off the tall and lanky look, seems to be looking around for a starving child to tend to or adopt.

You have beautiful people doing cool stuff in beautiful environments. If you're into that sort of thing, then this movie is for you.

Despite the star power, the film lacks fireworks. It proves to be a case of big star power with low wattage.

The dreadful dialogues and plot-holes do not help.

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• Genre : Thriller
• Release Date : December 8, 2010
• Languages : English, Spanish
• Captions : English, Spanish
• Audio Format : 5.1

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The Tourist (2010)

103min - English, Spanish

103min - English

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American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elsie on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

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