
Prior to seeing this film, I made no attempt to look into critical reviews of this film so as not to sully my prior opinion of it. However, it was quickly apparent that my opinion of this film going into it was correct. The Tourist is a horrible film made worse by the fact that it has two "A" list actors and a director of a film that is nothing short of amazing... The Lives of Others (which won an Academy Award). This film is a colossal failure at all levels, direction, writing and acting. In spite of this, The Tourist was nominated for three Golden Globes, Best Musical or Comedy and nominations for Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. All three nominations were a travesty.

Wow, can you say convoluted and inherently ridiculous. What can you blame for this systematic failure of a film? Could it have been Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck rewriting the script in fourteen days or having a shooting schedule that was under sixty days? In the end, nothing was redeemable from this film. It was for lack of a better word, a piece of crap. I think of better ways for spending one hundred million dollars (the film's budget) would be drop it from a byplane into the ocean or setting it on fire.

With that being said, I cannot give this film any Rooneys on our patented-pending Rooney Rating system.
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