She's ex-CIA. He's ex-MI6. Together they're stealing a fortune.
Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and allow them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together. They find themselves on opposing sides as corporate spies; however, as they each try to outdo the other, neither one can decide how far to trust the other in this high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20246/10
This is a bit of a mess. It centres around the antics of former CIA operative "Claire" (Julia Roberts) and her ex-MI6 equivalent "Ray" (Clive Owen) who had a very brief dalliance five years earlier that saw him with an hangover and some egg on his face. Now, employed in the private sector, he encounters her at Grand Central station in New York whilst he is on a job only to discover that she is still in the same line of work too - and it's industrial secrets being bartered this time. They both know that a ground-breaking announcement is due imminently, so conclude that maybe the best plan is for them to do some of thieving for themselves and pocket a cool $35 million. The thing is that even though their romance is burgeoning, they still don't quite trust each other - and neither do we. Nor, I have to say, did I really care. Roberts tries quite hard here but Owen only ever really had eye-candy value and here is little different. Tom Wilkinson sports an unnecessary American accent as the owner of the magic formula and Paul Giamatti appears sparingly as the man determined to pinch it, but once we get the gist of the premiss the thing just recycles itself and for the next two hours we s
Read the whole review on TMDB - Andre Gonzaleson TMDB · Jul 20235/10
Kind of a dumb movie. They were trying to commit espionage but failed. Even if it worked it was still a boring movie with no results.
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Cast
- Julia RobertsClaire Stenwick
- Clive OwenRay Koval
- Tom WilkinsonHoward Tully
- Paul GiamattiRichard Garsik
- Tom McCarthyJeff Bauer
- Denis O'HareDuke Monahan
- Kathleen ChalfantPam Frailes
- Wayne DuvallNed Guston
- Carrie PrestonBarbara Bofferd
- Oleg StefanBoris Fetyov
Crew
- Tony GilroyDirector
- Tony GilroyWriter
- Robert ElswitDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- John GilroyEditor
- Laura BickfordProducer
- Jennifer FoxProducer
- Kerry OrentProducer
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