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.
In 1959 a peculiar elementary student named Lucinda wrote a full page series of numbers to be placed in a time capsule as part of a class project. 5o years later when the capsule was opened at the same elementary school, these series of numbers, was given to Caleb Koestler. As Caleb tried to make sense of these numbers, he looked up, and he saw a mysterious figure starring at him from a distance. Although Caleb was not suppose to, he took the page of numbers home, and subsequently his dad, professor Koestler,that night, while alone downstairs mildly inebriated, noticed what seemed like a pattern as he looked at the page. Minutes later, Koestler began linking these patterns to major catastrophic events, but there were events that had not transpired, and Professor Koestler set out to warn the people, while dealing with the mysterious men who monitor his house.
This film was fun to watch, because it did not lag; it was fast paced, well explained, and coupled with very well directed action scenes, the result was, a movie that kept the audience's attention from the beginning, to the end. The catastrophe scenes, were impactful with graphic details that invoked discomfort, but that is only because the scenes were so well directed. Actually, the entire movie was well directed, particularly becuase all the elements of the film were so well explained, except for one, namely, the little black stones. I still do not understand their function in relation to the "whisper people". I loved the ending. Automatiaclly, I thought about "Genesis". According to metacritic.com the film received mixed reviews, and rottentomatoes.com granted the film, 18 fresh tomatoes to 54 rotten ones for an overall bad review. I disagree with the critics; I thought the film was great. Ill score it an 85.
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