Julia Roberts and Clive Owen engage in Trouble in Paradise style comic one-upmanship in this fun thriller about two romantically entangled rival spies working a long con. The targets in question are two dueling drug companies fronted by explosive CEOs Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti. The film comes from writer/director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) who has a good time playing with his spy cinema expertise (Gilroy penned the Bourne trilogy) by setting his high end protagonists on corporate wild goose chases, including a subplot about a potential frozen pizza scam. It's big stakes in surprisingly mundane surroundings and the contrast, combined with Roberts and Owen in witty banter mode, make this an enjoyable film trifle.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
DVD Pick: Duplicity
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen engage in Trouble in Paradise style comic one-upmanship in this fun thriller about two romantically entangled rival spies working a long con. The targets in question are two dueling drug companies fronted by explosive CEOs Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti. The film comes from writer/director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) who has a good time playing with his spy cinema expertise (Gilroy penned the Bourne trilogy) by setting his high end protagonists on corporate wild goose chases, including a subplot about a potential frozen pizza scam. It's big stakes in surprisingly mundane surroundings and the contrast, combined with Roberts and Owen in witty banter mode, make this an enjoyable film trifle.
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