The Tourist

The Tourist is a new movie of the spy genre in the tradition of James Bond, etc. It co-stars Johnny Depp as Frank and Angelina Jolie as Elise. It is directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The basis of the story is Elise running around doing some spy stuff in Europe which Frank, a tourist, gets caught up in unsuspectingly.

The main thing I liked about this movie was getting to see two of favorite performers, Angelina and The Depp, on the screen at the same time.

But beyond that there wasn't a whole lot to it. There really isn't a great big good story (it's on the same level as Jolie's Salt). The characters aren't nearly as deep as I was hoping they would be. Johnny had said that he really wanted to do a movie with Jolie. So I think he just jumped into this one because it was there. I don't feel this role really challenged him. Most anyone out there could have played it the same way. It isn't one of his definitive performances. I would like to see Johnny and Angelina try another movie sometime-one that's deeper. Also too the ending was kinda easy to foresee (that always bothers me).

Not a bad movie but nothing spectacular...FX/TBS It.