Duplicity: Rome

Official Site: duplicitymovie.net
Director(s): Tony Gilroy
Writer(s): Tony Gilroy
Producer(s): Laura Bickford , Jennifer Fox, Kerry Orent, and John Gilroy

Starring: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Oleg Shtefanko, and Denis O'Hare(IMDb.) Rated-PG13 125 minutes.

Ray Koval ( Owen), and Claire Stenwick (Roberts), are intelligence agents who fell in love under unusual circumstances in Rome. And they decided, to continue living a fabulous life, they entered into corporate spying with a plan to fleece one of two major corporations that are engaged in a heated competition to be the best. Both of these corporations are unaware of the collusion of Koval and Stenwick. As the plan to fleece one of the corporations is approaching full execution, Koval and Stenwick encounter a big surprise.

Absolutely not formulaic. Films about corporate spies, and counter corporate intelligence, are seldom released, and this is perhaps one of the most original films that I have seen. Certainly the film had a plot that is not commonly explored, and I appreciate the originality of the entire movie. For those who enjoy films with the usual formula, this may be disappointing, as one woman was in the theater last night.

The writing was smart and intricate, and all the actors delivered awesome performances. As usual, Tom Wilkinson was amazing, but so was Paul Giamatti, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen. According to metacritic.com, the film received generally favorable reviews, and rottentomatoes.com granted the film 75 fresh tomatoes to 40 rotten ones thus far. Good Stuff! I'll give an 87. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.


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