Réalisation:
Tom TykwerScénario:
Eric Warren SingerPhotographie:
Frank GriebeActeurs·trices:
Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Brían F. O'Byrne, Patrick Baladi, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Jack McGee (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Sous des dehors respectables, l'International Bank of Business and Credit est une multinationale de la finance spécialisée dans le blanchiment d'argent et le financement d'opérations illégales. Face à elle, Louis Salinger, agent d'Interpol, et Eleanor Whitman, district attorney adjoint de Manhattan, sont déterminés à mettre fin à ses activités illicites. Ils sont prêts à tout pour que la justice règle son compte à cette organisation tentaculaire et intouchable, mais pour y parvenir, ils vont eux aussi devoir agir au-delà des lois... D'un bout du monde à l'autre, contre tous les dangers, Eleanor et Louis se lancent dans une partie à haut risque dont ils ne maîtrisent pas les règles. Une chose est certaine: ce jeu dans lequel leur redoutable ennemi contrôle tout et tout le monde ne s'arrêtera que lorsque l'un des adversaires sera à terre... (Sony Pictures Releasing France)
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Critiques (12)
Un espionnage paranoïaque décent, bien que un peu bavard, avec une excellente scène de fusillade. On ne se concentre pas vraiment sur le développement des personnages, mais la communication non verbale de Clive Owen satisfait d'autant plus. Son personnage d'agent est exactement ce qu'il lui faut. Zoé Saldana n'a du sens que dans un contexte marketing, sur l'affiche. L'intrigue est assez compliquée, mais captivante, et la tension est maintenue par la musique électronique calme et palpitante (on prend plaisir à soutenir ce courageux rebelle qui va affronter les manipulateurs les plus puissants du monde). Il y a aussi une magnifique maison sur les falaises, sortie tout droit d'un film de James Bond. Il n'y a pas de nouveau Bourne, et Michael Clayton a approfondi davantage le sujet, mais avec l'intermédiaire de Pollack, ce projet commercial de Tykwer a son mot à dire.
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While it looks like an action-packed romp, except that it's not action, unless you count the shootout in the gallery, which is the only one that really caught my attention. Otherwise? Not that great. I'd give it 2 stars, but because it ends quite realistically and believably, indeed it's all pretty believable in general (their injuries, for example – they really are injured, they go to the doctor and don't miraculously recover from their injuries in the next scene). So I really appreciate that about this film. Then there's also my favorite actor starring – another plus. The romance wasn't there, which may be a shame for the viewer's attention span, but maybe that's what really makes the film more believable... anyway, check it out if you like Clive and if you like the worker ant wanting to bring down the supervillain corporation.
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A bureaucracy bound James Bond from the financial world. Tykwer approaches this untraditionally, almost unwatchably. I was expecting something like Michael Clayton in a different environment with scores of attractive locations. And I got Michael Clayton in a different atmosphere with scores of attractive locations. The only action scene is absolutely fantastic (not just due to the choice of locations), but it is completely out of place in this movie. A calm, serious tempo where even the nerve-racking chases happen at brisk walking pace and all of a sudden we get an action movie like from John Woo, and with humor to boot! And then a return to the slow, but in no way boring tempo. If the Whitman character weren’t so superfluous and those several rather laughable genre clichés (it applies that they might not have mattered in a different movie, but here they are simply eyesores), then I would have enjoyed Tykwer’s idea of a thriller, and raised no objections.
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Tom Tykwer, clearly impressed by the recent "Bond films" and the "Bourne Trilogy," decided to make his own contribution to the theme of lone agents standing up to powerful multinational organizations, and the result is a very unconventional, yet impressive spectacle. Although the characters are in constant motion, the locations change and the plot moves along briskly. Tykwer's storytelling is surprisingly sparing, slightly distant (the almost fetishistic emphasis on modern architecture), and relatively slow-paced (except for the unique shootout, which is unparalleled). Yet, amazingly, it all works. After seeing a film like this, one can only get the impression that banks are the evil of this world - if one has forgotten that they caused the current economic crisis. :) PS: The reference to The Jackal pleased me. Power.
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Tom Tykwer is definitively becoming a polymath who can inventively shoot any genre, but this time I can't buy it from his hand. He does a guide to the world of frauds with ease, but at the same time, every time the viewer catches up with the screenplay through the various twists and turns, it adds another twist and shows that this time it won't lend a helping hand to those lagging behind. Any positive impressions are mainly gained by Clive Owen, once again in the role of an indefatigable hitchhiker. In his performance, the perfectly escalating shootout became, without exaggeration, a legendary scene.
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