The International

Director: Tom Tykwer

Stars: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jack McGee, Ulrich Thomsen

Year: 2009 Running Time: 118 mins Rating:

CERT: 15

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Sound familiar? A maverick bank whose immoral dealings threatens to bring down the Western world? No, it’s not the greedy high street incompetents but a shady financial giant who wants to destabilise the Middle East. Clive Owen is the Interpol trouble-shooter assigned to settle the account while Naomi Watts is the New York public prosecutor helping him credit crunch the baddies.

Review

“Killing me won’t change anything – there’s a thousand bankers ready to take my place”.

No, it’s not a heated exchange between the Financial Services Authority and the Royal Bank of Scotland but the tricksy word of crooked financial whiz-kid Jonas Skarssen (Thomsen).

He’s in charge of a monolithic Luxumbourg-based money-spinning giant heavily involved in a scheme to finance an arms deal in the Middle East with the help of a Berlusconi-type Milanese armaments manufacturer.

However, when the Italian merchant of death takes against the deadly bank’s assassination of a friend he too finds himself a target and is duly despatched by a sniper.

Meanwhile, Interpol loose cannon Louis Salinger (Owen) and American legal eagle Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) realise that if they can find out who the hitman is then they’ve a chance of bringing the rotten bankers down.

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In director Tom Tykwer's thriller, Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant DA Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) have an account to settle with a major international bank up to its neck in money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments.