The International Critic Reviews

I can promise you a fairly good thriller with mixed-bag elements: preposterous plot, smartly elegant direction, one of the worst recent performances by a major actress, and a dynamite stick of an action scene that can stand close to the greats (the car chase in "The French Connection," the single-take battle sequence in "Children of Men") and from which the movie never really recovers.Read the full review

Clive Owen makes a semi-believable hero, not performing too many feats that are physically unlikely. As the plucky DA, Naomi Watts wisely plays up her character's legal smarts and plays down the inevitable possibility that the two of them will fall in love.Read the full review

Won't go down as an action thriller for the record books, but it's a pretty good one for right now. First of all, the villain is a bank. How's that for timing?Read the full review

Punctuated with bursts of explosive energy, this is a contained, cerebral film.Read the full review

The compulsively watchable Owen makes for an ideal leading man of both action and angst. The film's eye-popping set piece, a shootout at the Guggenheim Museum, is an extravagantly choreographed valentine to philistines everywhere.Read the full review

There's something almost endearingly out of sync about the sleek but now dated Euro-thriller The International.Read the full review

Though not as action-packed as some thrillers, The International is noteworthy for its unusually scenic and architecturally dazzling locations.Read the full review

A decent thriller that should have been dazzling, is nothing if not topical.Read the full review

The International possesses the look and feel of a thriller, but not the heart or soul of one.Read the full review