An average
tourist is drawn into a web of intrigue by a beautiful woman.
While the
main plot of the movie roughly works, being a remake of a French original this
shouldn’t be a surprise, the rest is all a real big misfire.
The main problem
incredibly lies into the main protagonists. Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie two
of the most charming actors in the world somehow when working together create
the anti chemistry. It’s amazing how the movie stops when they try something
romantic, how Depp, normally so deft, is reduced to a bumbling buffoon and how wooden
Angelina is. I really don’t understand it.
Even alone
they don’t fare much better. Depp is so wonderful when he plays the abnormal,
the strange, and the peculiar but evidently he is not capable to play the
normal, the average. Moreover his natural good looks hadn’t been toned down not
even a little bit. I understand that the main selling point is he and Mrs. Jolie
making out but the story simply doesn’t work if the average guy came straight
out of a fashion shoot.
Jolie doesn’t
fare better. The makeup and costume department is evidently directed by some
madman. Her hair and attire is incredibly over the top and, most importantly,
she looks terrible in it. It’s so bad that it’s worth having a look just to appreciate
it.
On the
acting side also she, like Depp, evidently has a lot of trouble in conveying normal
human emotions. All the social interactions are so stiff, her eyes absent.
Maybe part
of the fault lies in the director hands. The long named Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
decided to set the movie in one of the more cinematic places in the world,
Venice, and completely fails to use it. The lights are all terrible and the
shoots uninspiring.
Conclusion:
A real stinker, even if you are a fan of the main duo you really don’t want to
see it because it’s the first really bad movie that they made in ages.
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