The Interpreter (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Interpreter (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Misses its mark -
Summary: 2 Stars
I went to see this film hoping to see a riveting, suspense thriller. While the idea behind the story had a great deal of promise the film comes across as sluggish, not well edited and the characters are too grandiose.
As the film chugs along it always is trying to be like a "Classic Movie" you'd see on AMC/TCM and it loses itself. It could have been a great move if it was just written and directed more for the "here and now". Instead it tries too much to be like a "Classic" and just misses its mark
Movie Review: Just your average everday conspiracy thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
The Interpreter is nothing to write home about. Sydney Pollack's thriller suffers from a bit of an identity crisis - does it want to be a Hitchcock suspenser, conspiracy thriller, character piece, morality play or poltical drama? To which the answer is, probably. Throwing away its Hitchcockian premise, it wears the conspiracy clothes most comfortably, but the plot is easily guessed thanks to two massively unsubtle hints and, aside from a good sequence on a bus, builds up to what would be a serious anticlimax if the rest of the film were any better. Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, the latter looking like a bizarre deflated hybrid of Walter Matthau, Dustin Hoffman and Pollack himself here, do ok by their cliched parts and the casting of Earl Cameron, one time elder statesman of British race-relations pictures like Sapphire and Flame in the Streets, as the Mugabe-like liberator-turned-dictator is clever. It's watchable in a once-only way, but it's a long way from the quality of Three Days of the Condor. Next time, guys, finish the script before starting shooting.
Movie Review: Incredible they made such a bad movie!
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me see if I get this movie.
Silvia (Nicole Kidman) overhears by mistake a plot for killing the dictador, so she put herself on risk telling the Secret Service who doesn't believe her at the first place.
Now, she has a guy who is trying her for telling the SS, but finaly she decides she better kill the dictador all by herself.
Why didn't she just hears the conversation and not telling anyone about it, so someone else would have kill the dictador?
STUPID MOVIE, DON"T LOSE YOUR TIME!
Movie Review: Dull
Summary: 2 Stars
Despite a terrific performance by Sean Penn, and a decent one from Nicole Kidman, this movie didn't move me. It manages to be both dull and improbable. There's a lot of Screenwriting 101 in it, stakes raised in a way that, unfortunately, feels very artificial. It also seems quaintly nostalgiac in its depiction of the UN. The founders of the UN might have fantasized it would work like this in 2005, but it doesn't.
It's diverting enough if you've seen everything else, or if you are a fan of the stars. But keep your expectations low.
Movie Review: A dull, cliched, highly unoriginal thriller saved by Pollack and the cast
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Interpreter" has an interesting story: an interpreter for the United Nations, played by Nicole Kidman, overhears an assassination plot spoken in a language she and very few other people understand. Sean Penn plays the U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to investigate the interpreter and see if she did hear what she says she did.
"The Interpreter" is Sydney Pollack's first film since 1999's flop "Random Hearts". Pollack's directing is one of the two high points of the film. The other is the cast. Kidman and Penn are both very good and, paired with Pollack's directing, they keep the film going.
Other than those points mentioned above, the film has little going for it. About fifty minutes through the film I was sick of it. There's very little originality in the film; it's cliched and predictable. I felt like I was watching another dumb thriller.
I don't have much to say about this film. I thought it was a dull, cliched thriller, simple as that.