Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie come together for The Tourist.
But it’s a film that’s less than the sum of its parts.
A lot, lot less, as it happens.
Just wanted to put this warning here to be absolutely on the safe side.
One thing you cannot accuse it of is a surplus of ambition.
For what its worth, heres a brief summary of the plot.
But Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are certainly two of the few actors left who fit into that bracket.
So, heres the rub: theyre bothterrible.
Lets start with Jolie.
The Touristfetishises Jolie to a ludicrous degree.
His idea of acting average or normal is to mumble all of his lines and look permanently constipated.
A couple of months in Venice with Angelina Jolie, eh?
Kissing scenes, you say?
Can I have lots of money as well?
Ill see if Im free.
I guess Im being cynical, but this is a very cynical film were talking about.
its outright laughable, such has been the utter paucity of chemistry between them up to that point.
It is unbelievably stupid in ways that I cant even begin to describe.
And why does this film even need a twist?
The Touristis not an offensively bad film, but it is, at points, a laughably bad one.
Which I think we can all agree would have improvedThe Touristimmeasurably.
Rating:
1 out of 5
