Clive Owen trying to hard to seem upset and it feels like you have seen this story before. Just in another format. Probably exciting for some people though, just not 10/10 for me.

This movie is solid entertainment. It packs enough intrigue and suspense to really grip you until the last frame. Clive Owen is usually pretty wooden, but he excels as the under pressure Interpol agent tasked to solve a crime while simultaneously not stepping on the toes of an incredibly powerful cabal of dangerous big business, contract killers and corrupt law enforcement officials. He has to walk a tightrope which provides the central tension of this powerful film. Naomi Watts is equally good playing his partner. This movie was also directed by Tom Tykwer, the excellent German director of Run Lola Run, so you can be sure this movie moves along at a fast pace. This is a good conspiracy theory espionage thriller set in today's high tech world of big business, corruption and war profiteering. Recommended.

Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) is investigating the bank IBBC for buying $200million worth of missile guidance system with the Manhattan Assistant D.A. Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts). His partner dies in an apparent sophisticated killing. Then his partner's informer is found dead. Salinger is facing many roadblocks in this international conspiracy of money laundering, arms trafficking, and political corruption. Bank chairman Jonas Skarssen (Ulrich Thomsen)'s police statement is revised. Wilhelm Wexler (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is the banker who hired the Consultant.It's a lot of tense atmospherics. However the heat is left mostly at a slow boil. The use of bankers as bad guys is an interesting twist and a fitting one for the times. This is essentially a spy thriller with bankers instead of spies. The other noticeable thing from director Tom Tykwer is that he loves to put architecture in this movie. The story is a long winding twisty thing. There is a big shootout at the Guggenheim which finally gave this movie some action energy plus the prerequisite architecture fetish. Mostly it's a fun ride for conspiracy lovers.

Interpol Agent Louis Salinger is investigating the International Bank of Business and Credit; outwardly it appears that the IBBC is just another world bank but Salinger is convinced that it is involved in supplying weapons to terrorists and rogue states. It isn't a safe investigation either; anybody who gets close to exposing what is going on quickly turns up dead. He is joined by Eleanor Whitman, an assistant district attorney from New York as the case moves from Berlin to Milan then, after a politician is murdered, back to New York where Salinger must survive a gun fight in the Guggenheim Museum. He learns that the bank's latest operation is to sell upgraded Chinese missiles to Iran… if he can prevent the deal he might just bring about the collapse of the bank but he only has a limited amount of time and must be willing to break the rules.This was a pretty solid thriller with plenty of action and some great locations… including going to the rooftops of Istanbul long before the James Bond film 'Skyfall' went there. The action was varied and exciting; the most notable moment being the shootout in the Guggenheim; a tense and memorable scene in a surprising location. Clive Owen did a fine job as Salinger and Naomi Watts was good as Whitman; although I was surprised that her character wasn't more involved in the story. Director Tom Tykwer does a good job keeping the action and plot moving… keeping this viewer gripped from start to finish. If there was a weakness it was the villains; for the most part they were just greedy men in suits without the expected menace one has come to expect in films like this… If you want a solid action thriller you could do a lot worse than this; I'd certainly recommend it.