Advantages: It's a slick Hollywood espionage thriller... Disadvantages: It's less than the sum of its parts.
Claire Stenwick is a former CIA agent employed by a corporate giant to protect their intellectual property, while her former lover Ray Koval is ex-MI6. Together they hatch a plan to bag themselves a cool forty million dollars. All they have to do is steal a formula with the ability to revolutionise the cosmetics industry. But they aren’t the only ones out to get the information; competing CEOs Howard Tully and Dick Garsik will fight tooth and claw ... ...business. Ray gets a job with Garsik’s company handling security and comes up with an ingenious scheme that should see them walking away with the wonder-product and making a fortune. What could be simpler – if the slippery spies could actually trust each other?
“Michael Clayton” writer-director Tony Gilroy returns with another twisty little tale of a rather different order. This one is far less serious than his last project, employing the same jigsaw ...
afy9mab 12.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Duplicity (DVD)
Advantages: Fun to watch, good chemistry between Owen and Roberts Disadvantages: Formulaic in parts and it would be nice to see Roberts in a different kind of role
...think suits were invented, and have evolved over the years, specifically so that Clive Owen can wear them in movies and look that good. It's frustrating. From a males point of view. Anyway, I digress. I thought Duplicity was a smart, funny film, thoroughly enjoyable if taken in your stride. ...
soulspinner 13.09.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Duplicity (DVD)
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