Finally we get to see such amazing actors as Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie act opposite each other in a film called the Tourist - a remake of the French thriller Anthony Zimmer. In the film the dazzling beauty, Elise Ward (Angelina Jolie) is first seen sipping a coffee in a cafe. While under surveillance, of Interpol, she receives a message. The message is from her former lover, Alexander Pearce, an international criminal, who stole millions of dollars from a gangster by the name of Shaw. Elise gets the instruction to take a train and meet Alexander in Venice, Italy. Whilst on the train she is suppose to find a man with a specific height and looks. She gets acquainted with a tourist by the name of Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp), a math-teacher from Wisconsin. Elise convinces Frank to have dinner with her and later on to stay in a hotel, where they kiss; a kiss that sets of a chain of events, resulting in Frank being mistaken by Pearce and colliding with the Interpol investigation.
During the film there are a couple of twists, but they leave you with a confused state of mind - I had no idea if i was watching a comedy or an action movie. The story was there, the acting was there but the execution was poor. It was good to see Johnny Depp act as an down to earth man instead of the eccentric characters we are used to seeing him play, but being Johnny he still added his quirks to the character. That part i liked though, i had more trouble with the music that was trying to buildup the pace, leaving you expecting an event that never came. The editing was rather poor as well. It seemed like bits and pieces where missing, which spoiled what could have been a great chemistry between the characters. There where bloopers too; like during a shooting scene bullets went through the roof of the boat and in the next scene the roof is polished and shining, or when a hand-cuffed Depp is swimming in the water without hand-cuffs...and there where more of such mistakes. Those are perhaps details but very annoying ones. It was like the film was taking the "p" for the better part. The good set of actors, beauty of Venice, some wittyness, shooting and running over roof-tops lift the film up but only so much. Don't get me wrong though - after accepting the film for what it is - it becomes decent one. It is not a movie that will leave you with a sense of "what pile of crap was that(?)" but it will not blow you away either. That said i enjoyed it.
