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The International

The International stars Clive Owen as Louis Salinger, a rumpled Interpol agent who reluctantly came to that organization from Scotland Yard. We meet him in liaison with the FBI and Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) from the NYC District Attorney’s office. While in Germany closing in on a small arms money laundering scheme Salinger’s FBI partner comes to an untimely end which almost turns out to be the end for their case. For Salinger it’s déjà vu all over again as he is suddenly revisiting the cause of his departure from “The Yard”. As he and Whitman try to pick up the pieces a sinister plot unfolds involving a banking entity less concerned with cash than with geo-political manipulation. As these two get closer to the truth it becomes apparent that less and less people are really interested in the truth. Then there become less and less people due to a mounting body count that climaxes in a heart stopping gun battle at New York’s famed Guggenheim museum. Watts again gets to work with Eastern Promises star Armin Mueller-Stahl who as Wilhelm Wexler again plays his trademark soft spoken but sinister poppet master who eventually is Salinger’s key to unravelling the bad guys but at the cost of becoming a bad guy himself. With action ricocheting across Europe and the Atlantic it begs the question, with so much international intrigue why isn’t The International more intriguing?

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