The Tourist Reviews

I already saw this movie (In fact, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released) but, since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. In fact, I remember very well when this movie was coming out and there was a huge buzz about the damned thing which was quite understandable. Indeed, it was starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie who were, back in those days, the 2 biggest movie stars in the world and it was directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck whose previous movie, ‘Das Leben der Anderen’, was heralded as one of the best movies released during the last 10 years. However, eventually, it was rather poorly received, the critics were not really positive and, indeed, I’m afraid I would have to agree with them. At least, even though it was nothing amazing, I thought it was a decent watch above all thanks to Johnny Depp who was still able to provide an enjoyable performance back in those days. However, I was still amazed by how sleep inducing the whole thing was, especially when you rewatch it. Indeed, it was nothing original whatsoever and, honestly, I thought that the story was actually rather boring. On top of that, none of the characters was developed whatsoever but, even worse, none of them was really entertaining and/or interesting. Since then, both Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie made more headlines about their respective divorces then for their acting work. Jolie doesn’t act much these days and she had actually the ambition to become a director but it didn’t exactly really work out after all. For Depp, the situation is even worse, his behavior has been increasingly erratic, he got involved in many misguided lawsuits and some say that this acting career might be now finished which would be a shame. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, to conclude, I guess the damned thing was mildly entertaining but this movie was still probably one of the most disappointing released in 2010.