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The action in The Tourist begins straight away, with men following Angelina Jolie’s character, Elise immediately starting the intrigue of the viewer. Jolie does an amazing job of playing Elise, easily the only likeable character in the movie. She portrays Elise as a mysterious woman who exudes elegance. Unfortunately the intrigue does not last much further than the opening sequence. The movie then becomes too slow moving to really keep the interest of the viewer.
The concept is hard to believe at stages, for example the fact that a stranger (Johnny Depp’s character, Frank) would so openly commit to Elise and go along with what she said – however this does make more sense when the twist is revealed at the end. Johnny Depp’s character was so boring throughout the whole film and if it wasn’t for Angelina Jolie I would have been fighting to stay awake.
The action sequences were poor as well, the first chase scene was so unconvincing. There was no desperation from either parties and it seemed to have a more comical feel to it which I didn’t like. The boat scene was better but still fell flat somehow.
I couldn’t deal with the cliched love story as well, it seemed bearable at first but as the film goes on it just became more and more ridiculous maybe peaking with a slow motion shot of Jolie mouthing “I love you”. When the twist is revealed after a fairly drawn out and boring finale it just left me confused and baffled. What is the point of Depp’s character actually being Alexander all along, it just doesn’t make sense e.g. why was he always so confused at the situation when he already knew most of the information. There are many plot-holes caused by this pointless twist that ruined any chance of this movie being salvaged.
This was possibly another case of me not realizing what kind of film it really was before watching but it was still pretty terrible apart from Jolie, and the locations which made it easy on the eye but that’s all that it managed.
BIGGEST FLAW – The pointless twist
BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT – Angelina Jolie’s performance
Written by Hamish Calvert
Rating – 3.5/10
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