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The Tourist recap: Depp and Jolie in a pointless nearly-caper

"this man is a tourist" – elise.

The Tourist should have been a raging success. A sumptuous $100m Hitchcockian thriller, set in the most impossibly scenic slivers of Europe, starring two of the most intimidatingly beautiful people alive. A script by Christopher McQuarrie from The Usual Suspects and Julian Fellowes from Downton Abbey . Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won an Oscar for The Lives of Others , in the director's chair. What could have possibly gone wrong?

A lot, it turns out. Although blame has been assigned to everything from a constant churn of writers, directors and stars to the incredibly short production turnaround, the fact is that The Tourist is a colossal hodgepodge of wasted opportunity. Or at least it seemed that way back in 2010. Has it improved with age?

"Why is everyone trying to kill me?" – Frank

Nope. At first glance, the main problem with The Tourist is that everyone seems to be starring in a completely different film. Jolie treats the entire thing like a big-budget, gussied-up, Vaseline-lensed perfume ad; her vainglorious attempt at Nicole Kidman's "I'm a dancer! I love to dance!" Chanel commercial . Johnny Depp, meanwhile, has two approaches. Perhaps it's all those years of desperate contortion to make the tortured Pirates of the Caribbean dialogue seem in any way humorous, but he plays everything for laughs here. His other approach, the more immediate one, is to try and get through the entire film without ever actually opening his mouth. And then there's Steven Berkoff who, because he's Steven Berkoff, mistakes his character for a screaming lunatic trapped at the bottom of a well.

The worst crime of all, though, is the comprehensive lack of chemistry between Depp and Jolie. After all, her entire mission ostensibly involves finding a stranger and unleashing the full force of her sexual charisma upon him until he's powerless to resist. Their first meeting on a train had the potential to be immediately iconic, bristling with tension and longing. In truth, though, it's barely even a Gold Blend advert. Jolie's seductive gaze is so hamfisted that it makes her look like a little old lady struggling to read a menu through cataracts. Depp's first instinct, obviously, is to respond to this bloodless come-on by giving a blank-eyed yet surprisingly comprehensive explanation of how e-cigarettes work. And this is just about as sexy as the film gets. After that, the whole thing descends into tedious cinematic anti-Viagra. It's an enormous disappointment.

"You're ravenous" – Frank

So that's the beginning of the film. The middle of the film is equal parts European scenery, mumbling and Angelina Jolie attempting to liven things up by playing a sort of Buckaroo game where she sees how much makeup and jewellery she can load on to her face without her head popping off. And then, gloriously, the film is rounded out by a twist so aggressively dimwitted that you'd get up and kick your television over if the preceding 92 minutes hadn't entirely sapped you of your will to live.

If this is your first time watching The Tourist, I'm totally about to spoil the ending for yo u . But then again you've read this far and still want to watch it, so you've got it coming. At the end it's revealed that Johnny Depp's character isn't a schlubby community-college teacher after all. He's actually Alexander Pearce, a man wanted by the police for an overdue payment of hundreds of millions of pounds in taxes. He also used to go out with Angelina Jolie. But he had plastic surgery, so she didn't recognise him. But she recognised him enough to pick him out of an entire carriage of strangers. If that was the point of his surgery. It might not have been. This film is so stupid.

Also, at the end of this pointless and unnecessarily long nearly-caper – the one that takes place across two countries and involves mistaken identity and expensive hotels and torture and death and enough lens-Vaseline to lubricate an entire tectonic plate – Johnny Depp just writes the police a cheque for his unpaid taxes. He went through all that, when he could have just written a cheque at the start of the film and saved everyone a lot of wasted time that they're never going to get back. Johnny Depp is an idiot.

There's no way of saying how much shorter this film would be if you cut out all the scenes where Jolie and Depp gaze at each other in total dead-eyed silence. But, conservatively, let's say it'd be 15 times shorter.

I have now watched The Tourist three times, and it's only just occurred to me that Angelina Jolie is actually doing a pretty spot-on Anne Robinson impression.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

The movie's strongest message is that everyone is

Shaw puts his love of money and possessions above

A kingpin and his gangster henchmen try to kill Fr

Elise is pretty much sex appeal personified. She's

Occasional strong language includes a couple of us

The Eurostar train system is featured pretty heavi

Several people smoke cigarettes, and Frank smokes

Parents need to know that this romantic thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie is the kind of twisty suspense drama that will appeal to savvy teens who like the two stars. The premise is simple but mature, and as the movie progresses, certain plot twists make The Tourist more appropriate for older…

Positive Messages

The movie's strongest message is that everyone is both good and bad, light and dark, and those who love you accept you completely as both.

Positive Role Models

Shaw puts his love of money and possessions above all else. Alexander might have stolen from an awful man, but he's still a thief, and Elise is a rogue character who makes questionable professional and personal decisions.

Violence & Scariness

A kingpin and his gangster henchmen try to kill Frank and Elise several times, chasing them on speed boats and through the streets/rooftops of Venice. A man is throttled to death, and four or five men are killed by police snipers.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Elise is pretty much sex appeal personified. She's presented as being so stunning that men and women stop in their tracks to stare at her as she walks by. One of the uses of "f--k" in the film is inspired by the sight of her in an evening gown. There are a couple of passionate kisses, as well as one scene of Elise changing into a lacy nightgown (viewers see her in her bra, stockings, and underwear).

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Occasional strong language includes a couple of uses of "f--k" plus "a--hole," "s--t," "hell," "bastard," and "oh my God."

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Products & Purchases

The Eurostar train system is featured pretty heavily, and the logo is shown a few times. Venice's ultra-luxurious Hotel Danieli is one of the movie's main locations.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Several people smoke cigarettes, and Frank smokes nicotine-releasing electric cigarettes. People are shown drinking socially at dinners and a party.

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Parents need to know that this romantic thriller starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie is the kind of twisty suspense drama that will appeal to savvy teens who like the two stars. The premise is simple but mature, and as the movie progresses, certain plot twists make The Tourist more appropriate for older teens and adults. There's some persistent violence in the form of a frightening older gangster who has no problem killing his own henchman and is responsible for the film's (relatively small) body count. Language includes a couple of uses of "f--k," as well as "s--t" and "a--hole." Although sexual content isn't too graphic -- Jolie and Depp's characters kiss passionately a couple of times, and, in one scene, Jolie strips down to her undergarments to change into a nightgown -- there's still a strong feeling of sexuality throughout the movie, as Jolie's mere presence creates an aura of sex appeal. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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This is a fantabulous movie, what's the story.

Elise Clifton Ward ( Angelina Jolie ) is an Englishwoman who lives in Paris and is being surveilled by both French and English authorities for her past relationship with a mysterious billionaire thief named Alexander Pierce. One morning, she receives instructions to board a train bound for Venice, find a man with Alexander's height and build, and make "them" believe it's him. She targets Frank Tupelo ( Johnny Depp ), a Wisconsin math teacher on a solo vacation. Smitten with Elise, Frank agrees to go to Elise's hotel, where she kisses him and then explains that she's meeting a secretive man she once loved. Meanwhile, Elise and Frank are being watched not only by a Scotland Yard agent ( Paul Bettany ) and his Italian collaborators but also by notorious gangster Reginald Shaw (Steven Berkoff), who wants the billions Alexander stole from him. Since Alexander has reportedly spent millions to change his appearance, everyone on the case believes Frank really is Alexander, so the race is on to save him before he's arrested or killed.

Is It Any Good?

THE TOURIST's look and feel are refreshing tributes to Alfred Hitchcock 's classic thrillers, in which mysterious, beautiful women on a train usually spelled trouble. Jolie is perfectly cast; she's the kind of actress you can believe would have every single man (and woman) in a train car staring at her. But Depp is a bit miscast as the wide-eyed Frank, who looks cool (because he's Johnny Depp) but is actually awkward and unaccustomed to the sensual sophistication that Elise exudes with every swish of her hips. Their flirtatious conversations are sweet and funny, but there's not the kind of electrifying chemistry you'd expect (for perfection, see Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest ).

Still, for travel and fashion junkies, this film is a decadent treat (every single thing Elise dons is gorgeous). Even with all of the movie's eye candy -- from Jolie to Depp to Bettany to Rufus Sewell (as a silent character who may or may not be the real Alexander) -- chances are you'll probably be busier ogling Jolie's ensembles and her hotel suite at the luxurious Hotel Danieli. The romance? It's all right. But the costumes and scenery -- absolutely swoon worthy.

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Families can talk about how the movie fits into the suspense genre . Early on, Elise and Frank joke about the stereotypes of suspense novels. How does the movie play by the very same rules they discuss?

Elise explains that she was raised to believe that to truly love someone you have to accept their "two sides" -- good and bad. How do the various characters in the movie show their "two-faced" nature?

What's the movie's message about relationships? Do you think Elise made the right choice? What did Reginald mean when he told Elise that life isn't kind to an ugly woman?

Movie Details

• In theaters : December 10, 2010
• On DVD or streaming : March 22, 2011
• Cast : Angelina Jolie , Johnny Depp , Paul Bettany
• Director : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Columbia Pictures
• Genre : Thriller
• Run time : 104 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG-13
• MPAA explanation : violence and brief strong language
• Last updated : January 2, 2023

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THE TOURIST Review

Matt's review of The Tourist. Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the film stars Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, and Paul Bettany.

Twist endings are a tricky proposition.  When executed successfully, they give the film a bravura finish that will have people talking for years to come.  But that's rare.  More often than not, they leave the audience confused and frustrated.  The Tourist is a charming albeit forgettable trifle of a film that chooses to throw an unnecessary and maddeningly stupid twist at the audience.  It's a twist ending that not only blows up in the movie's face, but blows it's face clean off, turning a pretty veneer into a mangled pile of "Are you kidding me?' and "That makes no goddamned sense."

The film begins with the financial crimes unit of Scotland Yard trailing Elise Ward (Angelina Jolie), the most beautiful, confident, and well-attired woman in the world.  Possessing the beauty of a goddess and a look that screams "I will never have sex with you," Elise is trying to throw the cops off her trail so that they'll stop chasing her husband, Alexander Pierce, a mob banker who stole billions from his boss.  The British government is in on the chase because 744 million of that amount belonged to them (why the mobster has that money is never explained).  Despite their surveillance, Pierce is still easily able to communicate with Elise through letters and he informs her that she needs to find a stranger with his height and build so that the cops (who don't know what Pierce looks like) will trail the poor stranger.  It's an elaborate set-up for what seems like a minor diversion.

On a train from Paris to Venice, Elise chooses her stooge by sitting across from Frank (Johnny Depp), Wisconsin's handsomest yet charmingly-befuddled community college math teacher.  Frank is, naturally, beguiled by the mysterious Elise but it turns out that the cops aren't the only one after Pierce.  The mobster (Steven Berkoff) and his goons are also chasing down Pierce and because of a case of mistaken identity, they're now after poor Frank.  It's a charming premise that begins to lose steam as director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck seems more interested in capturing the beauty of Venice rather than developing the characters or devising exciting chase scenes.

But up until the twist, The Tourist is a satisfactory diversion.  While the visuals make The Tourist ultimately feel more like a tourism video for Venice (provided you're ridiculously wealthy) than an attempt to better tell the story, Depp and Jolie acquit themselves well at their roles.  Jolie's confidence is staggering and you can see the joy Elise takes in grabbing an entire room's attention with nothing more than a grin.  It's also nice to see Depp playing an everyman rather than the bizarre outsider he usually portrays.  Frank is a charming character and he gets solid laughs every time he speaks Spanish as if it were Italian.

And then the film makes its twist and ruins just about everything that came before.  I'm going to have spoil what happens in order to explain why it's so bad, so if you're still interested in seeing the movie, please stop reading now.

Okay, so here's the twist: Pierce is actually Frank.  Midway through the film, we learn that Elise is actually working for the financial crimes unit but has been suspended.  She was working undercover in order to reveal the financial misdeeds being conducted by Pierce on the behalf of the mob, but instead she ended up falling for him.  At the end of the film, Frank reveals to Elise that he's actually Pierce.  And since he's got the money, the two get away with it.

The twist makes no sense.  Even if we assume that Elise doesn't know Frank is Pierce until the end of the movie (and it's possible she could have known from the beginning when you consider how poorly the twist is implemented and explained), his actions make no sense.  In order to avoid the cops, he puts himself and Elise in the crosshairs of the mob.  Furthermore, their behavior towards each other is inexplicable.  "Frank" is trying to woo Elise so Pierce is actually testing his wife's love even though she cares for him enough to follow any instructions he sends her and doesn't seem to care about her career or that he's a thief.  The twist turns Frank from a lovable everyman caught in larger-than-life circumstances to a manipulative schemer who was playing everyone from the start.

Perhaps we could derive a modicum of pleasure from Frank's deceit if we saw how he was pulling the strings the whole time.   Most movies with a twist ending like to show you how clever they are and will cut back to all the clues showing that you should have figured it out from the start, you gigantic dummy.  The Tourist doesn't even bother.  Instead, Elise makes a quip about Pierce's new face, and they set sail with all the money they stole.  No flashbacks or even a cursory argument of how Pierce chose to deceive her and make her his puppet.  In the end, Frank's a liar, Elise is corrupt, they get rich off stolen cash, the cops decide to drop the case, and they all lived happily ever after.  That's not a bad ending for a biting satire on post financial-crisis America, but it's a miserable way to close out what's mostly a light-hearted romantic thriller.

The Tourist Review

10 Dec 2010

102 minutes

Tourist, The

It’s an irony that can’t have escaped their ‘people’, that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp – who have the chiselled charisma and elegant cool associated with movie stars in the 1950s and ‘60s heyday of well-dressed international romantic thrillers – have spent so much of their careers trying to be dowdy, neurotic, eccentric or freakish. So, it’s no surprise they’re tempted to take on a cosmopolitan romp before gearing up for another Oscar bid nervous breakdown or Tim Burton goth grotesque.

Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise succumbed to much the same urges in Knight And Day, which set the bar low enough to give this a clear field – that was a romantic comedy/thriller which managed not to be sexy, funny or exciting but made a lot of noise, whereas the cocktail is mixed much better here. It’s light on action, but long on elegance with Jolie costumed and coiffeured for a high-end glamour shoot in every scene, and Depp carrying off a white tux and frilly shirt in the big ball sequence. However, it doesn’t quite fizz enough: early on, Depp compliments woman of mystery Jolie by calling her ‘the least down-to-Earth person I’ve ever met’ which underlines how miscast he seems to be as the everyman since the one thing Depp can’t do is ‘ordinary’; and smouldering looks don’t make up for a surprising lack of heat between these fabulous creatures.

The plot is a jeu d’esprit somewhere between North By Northwest and Cipher, populated by fantasy cops played by Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton and retro baddies like Steven Berkoff. Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, following up the outstanding The Lives Of Others, changes mood but still spends a lot of time on surveillance technology and peeping policemen.

There are twists and turns and reversals and revelations, and a sweet shadow performance by Rufus Sewell as the trickster who leads the story around by the nose, but little reason to be engaged in the perilous action. Where Knight And Day trashed tourist landmarks, this is timid even in its Venetian rooftop or canal chases and calling in Julian Fellowes to punch up the script still doesn’t import enough wit to keep the bubbles afloat.

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The Tourist

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• December 10, 2010
• Johnny Depp as Frank Tupelo; Angelina Jolie as Elise Clifton-Ward; Paul Bettany as Inspector John Acheson; Timothy Dalton as Chief Inspector Jones; Steven Berkoff as Reginald Shaw

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• March 22, 2011
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

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• Sony Pictures

Movie Review

Travel guides—even the best of ’em—can’t tell you everything.

Oh, sure, they’re fine if you just want to know how many euros that bistro down the street will run you, or where the bus stops are, or whether you need to bring a pocketful of change for the nearest public toilet.

But they always miss the really important details.

For instance, let’s say you’re a nondescript, unmarried American male math teacher on a train to Venice for vacation: How should you react if a beautiful, mysterious woman sits down across from you and starts flexing her large, painted lips? Does your guidebook have that eventuality indexed somewhere?

And then, let’s say that once you reach Venice, the same beautiful, mysterious woman asks you to spend the night (on the couch) in her fabulous canal-side suite. How is a traveler to handle that? And where’s the advice for what to do the next day when, instead of finding that beautiful and mysterious woman waiting for you, you find a hot breakfast and a couple of men with guns? Does your guidebook tell you which way to run on page 79? Does it hint at whether you’re allowed to eat first or not on 218? Does it say how much of a tip you’re supposed to leave the gunmen on 344?

Frank Tupelo finds all of this out the hard way. Still wearing his pajamas, Frank does what most of us would do if we were suddenly confronted by two men who start shooting through the bathroom door: He panics. And he jumps out the window, leaping about the rooftops of Venice.

Positive Elements

His guidebook doesn’t tell him to, but Frank still falls head over heels for Elise, the enigmatic stranger he meets on the train. Elise also finds herself somewhat taken by Frank. So they spend much of the film saving each others’ lives, and what could be more positive (or romantic) than that?

We also see a tip-top work ethic modeled by Inspector John Acheson, an English law enforcement type who hopes to haul in Elise’s one-time lover, Alexander Pierce. It was Alexander who stole 2.3 billion British pounds from a notorious gangster, and so technically he owes the British government about 744 million pounds in back taxes. Acheson, with very little encouragement from his boss, makes it his mission to bring Alexander to justice.

Spiritual Elements

Elise wears a bracelet bearing the symbol of the two-faced Roman god Janus���a gift from her mother and a reminder that everyone has two sides to them: “We must embrace them both in someone we love,” she says.

Gangster Reginald Shaw says that he’ll not just kill the person who stole from him, but their spouses, their children, their mothers and possibly their family doctors too. Why? Because he paid what he calls the “infinite price” for his ill-gotten gains: “My soul.”

Sexual Content

We learn that Elise spent a year living with Alexander. She and Frank kiss thrice—and all three are pretty passionate smackers. When Elise tells Frank he’ll need to sleep on the couch outside her bedroom, he considers barging into her room anyway—going so far as to turn the bedroom doorknob. Elise watches the knob turn as she undresses (we see her lacy underwear) and seems to wish Frank would walk in on her … but Frank changes his mind and goes back to the couch. There he dreams he walks in on her and gives her a kiss.

Elise wears a bevy of glamorous outfits—many of which bare her shoulders, showcase her breasts and/or accentuate her curves. When she’s walking down the street, the surveillance team tailing her focus on her rear as they giggle over whether she’s wearing underwear that day.

Violent Content

Characters get slapped, punched, chased, shot at and occasionally knocked around with various maritime instruments (a life preserver and the underside of a boat). A police officer gets accidentally pushed into a canal. Frank is dragged behind a boat.

More intense is a scene in which an unfortunate thug gets strangled with a tailor’s measuring tape.

We hear that Shaw killed all his wife’s lovers and, when he learned how many she had, he killed her too. He threatens Elise with a knife, trailing it menacingly across her face and lips. Several people are killed by snipers in a climactic but essentially bloodless finale.

Crude or Profane Language

Two f-words, two s-words and a smattering of milder curses including “a‑‑,” “b‑‑tard,” “h‑‑‑,” “d‑‑n” and “bloody.” God’s name is misused at least three times.

Drug and Alcohol Content

When Elise first meets Frank, he’s puffing on an e-cigarette—an electronic device that gives users a hit of nicotine while appearing to be a real cigarette. (The end lights up with an orange LED, and water vapor curls from the end like smoke.)

“That’s disappointing,” Elise says when Frank tells her what the thing is. Frank asks her whether she wishes he smoked for real, and she says, “I’d rather you be a man who did exactly as he pleased.” So, later, Frank does smoke a real cigarette. We see other characters light up too.

Elise and Frank imbibe wine, champagne and mixed drinks.

Other Negative Elements

Inspector Acheson’s investigative focus is so narrow that he rarely thinks of the innocents who might be harmed in his pell-mell attempt to nab Alexander.

[ Spoiler Warning ] Frank and Elise make off with Shaw’s money and sail off into the sunset. They leave behind a check made out to the British government for 744 million pounds, which prompts Acheson’s boss to close the case. Acheson still wants to see justice served, but he’s told that the money’s really all the department wanted.

We see some gangster cronies play poker.

Frank tells Elise that where he comes from it’s complimentary to call someone “grounded.” We Americans, apparently, are no-nonsense types who respect folks who are down to earth.

But Frank says he’s tired of that. “You are the least down-to-earth person I ever met,” he dreamily tells Elise.

The Tourist , much like Elise, is completely untethered from what most of us would recognize as reality. This movie is a breezy affair bearing little grit, no grime … and no point. Just exciting chase scenes and loving looks and befuddled cops.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director and a co-writer for The Tourist , may have hoped it would feel a bit like an old-school Alfred Hitchcock film. And to some extent, it does. The intrigue, the exotic locales, the chilly femme fatale and the seemingly bewildered everyman, they’re all onscreen. Even the restraint the film shows in the sex and violence departments—while indulging glamorous depictions of drinking and smoking—makes the film feel like a 1950s throwback.

‘Course, most of Hitchcock’s works managed to keep you guessing while the mystery was in progress and made sense when it was solved. Those are items The Tourist didn’t pack in its luggage. It boasts some heavy-duty star wattage but never shakes its dim storyline. This is a two-hour escape from reality where the most meaningful thing we see is the closing credits.

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

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After the shootout between Interpol and Reginald Shaw, we discover that Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp) is actually Alexander Pierce. Because of his $20 million plastic surgery, even agent Elisa Clifton-Ward (Angelina Jolie) didn’t realize it until Frank opens the safe with the right combination.

In the end they flee, leaving a 744 million pounds cheque for Interpol so that chief inspector Jones (Timothy Dalton) declares the enquiry closed, despite officer John Acheson’s (Paul Bettany) protest .

The mysterious man seen twice in the movie (Rufus Sewell) is a real English tourist who works for “a man who sends text messages” (allegedly Pierce).

• Actor: Angelina Jolie , Johnny Depp , Paul Bettany , Timothy Dalton
• Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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There’s a way to make a movie like "The Tourist," but Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck doesn’t find that way. Here is a romantic comedy crossed with a crime thriller, shot in Paris and Venice, involving a glamorous mystery woman and a math teacher from Wisconsin. The plot is preposterous. So what you need is a movie that floats with bemusement above the cockamamie, and actors who tease each other.

As the mystery woman, Angelina Jolie does her darnedest. She gets the joke. Here is a movie in which she begins in a Paris cafe, eludes cops by dashing into the Metro, takes an overnight train to Venice, picks up a strange man ( Johnny Depp ) and checks them both into the Royal Danelli without one wrinkle on her dress or one hair out of place. And is sexy as hell. This is the Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly role, and she knows it.

Depp is in the Cary Grant role of the obliging, love-struck straight man who finds himself neck deep in somebody else’s troubles. In theory, these two should engage in witty flirtation and droll understatement. In practice, no one seems to have alerted Depp that the movie is a farce. I refer to farce in the dictionary sense, of course: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Depp, however, plays his math teacher seriously and with a touch of the morose.

The plot involves — oh, hell, you know, the usual mystery man who has stolen millions from a gangster and gone into hiding while smuggling instructions to Jolie, his lover, instructing her to take the train to Venice, etc. And the cops from Scotland Yard who are tailing her in hopes of nailing the guy. And the gangster and his hit men who are also on the thief’s trail. And chases over the rooftops of Venice, dinner on a train, a scene in a casino, designer gowns and a chase through the canals with Jolie at the controls of a motor taxi, and...

Well, there was really only one cliche left, and I was grateful when it arrived. You know how a man in a high place will look down and see a canvas awning that might break his fall, and he jumps into it? Yep. And it’s shielding a fruit cart at the open-air market and he lands on the oranges and runs off, leaving the cart owner shaking his fist. This is a rare example of the Vertical Fruit Cart Scene, in which the cart is struck not from the side but from the top.

The supporting roles are filled by excellent actors, and it’s a sign of the movie’s haplessness that none of them make a mark. You have Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton as cops, Steven Berkoff as the gangster and Rufus Sewell as "The Englishman," who must be important because he hangs around without any apparent purpose. Once in London, I saw Berkoff play a cockroach in his adaptation of Kafka’s "Metamorphosis." It might have helped if he’d tried the cockroach again.

A depressing element is how much talent "The Tourist" has behind the camera. Writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made " The Lives of Others ," which won the 2007 Oscar for best foreign film. The screenplay is by Christopher McQuarrie (Oscar winner for " The Usual Suspects ") and Julian Fellowes (Oscar winner for " Gosford Park "), along with von Donnersmarck. It’s based on a French film written by Jerome Salle , which was nominated for a Cesar. All three "Tourist" writers seem to have used their awards as doorstops.

It doesn’t matter that the plot is absurd. That goes with the territory. But if it’s not going to be nonstop idiotic action, then the acting and dialogue need a little style and grace and kidding around. Jolie plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality. Depp plays his Wisconsin math teacher as a man waiting for the school bell to ring so he can go bowling. The other actors are concealed in the shadows of their archetypes. Cary Grant would have known how to treat a lady.

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Every now and then a movie comes along which intrigues me. This is not that movie. Instead, it’s a mediocre redux of the spy-uses-innocent-bystander-but-falls-in-love plot. Except it isn’t that, either.

As Elise Clifton-Ward, Angelina Jolie plays (surprise!) a mysterious, beautiful woman who rarely says a word, and when she does it’s in the most mechanically-reproduced attempt at a British accent I have seen since, well, Tomb Raider. She is to meet with her beloved Alexander Pierce, wanted by Interpol for over $700 million in back taxes owed to England. It gets better. The back taxes appear to be owed on the $2 billion he embezzled from a British gangster tied to the Russian mob. Unless there’s another $2 billion we don’t know about.

Pierce instructs here, through letters dropped by courier at a restaurant that, given that French authorities know she’s there, could have just as easily been bugged. That, however, would preclude the obligatory scene where they reconstruct the bits of a letter burnt to a crisp. Why burn the letter? It’s clear they’re not going to apprehend her because they’re trailing her to get to Pierce. Why not keep the letter? If they don’t know where she’s going they won’t get the letter. If they do know, then whatever’s on the letter is irrelevant by the time they catch up with her. But never mind. These are not the sort of obvious questions with which to bother studio executives.

She’s instructed by her beloved to get on the 8:22 A.M. train to Venice, find a man of similar stature and build and make her pursuers believe that’s Alexander. When you get to the end of the film, if you bother to see it, go backward through it and ask yourself how exactly the plan was so sure to unfold as it did. That’s a relatively important detail. At any rate, she ensnares Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp)—as in Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis Presley who continues to be sighted by many fans thirty years after his death. Need I go further? It is exactly what you think.

This movie has little purpose other than to cash in on Angelina Jolie’s stardom and beauty, of which she has plenty without question. To submerge us in stupidity even further, Ms. Clifton-Ward outright tells Mr. Tupelo, “I’m a mysterious woman on a train.” I’ve overheard others wondering why the filmmakers didn’t cast a British actress of similar beauty, and someone less talented than Johnny Depp to be wasted on this film—never mind that the film has not one, but three, Oscar-winning screenwiters. I would be quick to point out that films requiring many extravagant locations and stunts generally cost upwards of $80 million to make. Studio executives therefore reason that yet more money must be thrown at top stars to carry the film at the box office. But that’s putting the cart before the horse, isn’t it?

The only remotely funny joke in the film, aside from Frank’s inability to distinguish Italian from Spanish: Steven Berkoff is cast as a villain who is thought to be Russian yet isn’t. Instead, he surrounds himself with Russian henchmen to keep up appearances. Mr. Berkoff, a Brit, has often been cast as a Russian—hence the joke. Beyond that, the entire unnecessary affair continues to raise odd questions. Why, for example, does Interpol even attempt to match Tupelo to images in their database when no one has actually seen Alexander Pierce? In theory, they can confirm that it’s not Pierce but that’s irrelevant for two reasons: a) Pierce could be anybody in their database, or not in their database, and they would be none the wiser. b) They’ve been tailing Elise for the express purpose of tracking her to Pierce. If she’s going to lead them to him anyway, then why bother doing anything but keep a useful distance and see how it all unfolds?

Then you’ve got some moronic boat chase in which dashboard lights have been conveniently placed so we can see the actors faces at night. But wouldn’t that bli— oh, hell, nevermind. How do you say, “I want a refund,” in Italian?

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For many years now, Moscow has lagged behind St. Petersburg when it comes to making life easy for tourists, especially where getting around the city is concerned. Whereas the northern capital installed English-language maps, signs and information points throughout its subway system in the late 2000s, the Russian capital’s metro remained a serious challenge for foreign visitors to navigate.

Recent visitors to Moscow may have noticed some signs that change is afoot, however. In many stations of the Moscow subway, signs have appeared on the floor – with large lettering in Russian and English – indicating the direction to follow in order to change lines. Previously, foreign visitors using the Moscow metro had to rely solely upon deciphering the Russian-language signs hanging from the ceilings.

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However, this new solution has a significant drawback. “The floor navigation is visible only to a small stream of people – fewer than three people per meter. During peak hours, this navigation will simply not be noticed,” said Konstantin Trofimenko, Director of the Center for Urban Transportation Studies.

One of the biggest problems for tourists in the Russian capital remains the absence of English translations of the names of subway stations in the station vestibules and on platforms. The Department of Transportation in Moscow has not commented yet as to when this problem will be solved. However, Latin transliterations of station names can already be found in the subway cars themselves.

Finding the right exit

At four of the central stations – Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya, Ploshchad Revolyutsii, Lubyanka and Kuznetsky Most – the city authorities have now installed colorful stands at the exits with schematic diagrams of the station’s concourse and surrounding area, which provide information about the main attractions and infrastructural facilities.

The schematic diagrams are the work of British specialists from the City ID and Billings Jackson Design firms, who have already implemented successful projects in New York and London.

According to Alexei Novichkov, expert at the Design Laboratory at the Higher School of Economics, the design of these information booths raises no objections: The color solutions, font, layout and icons are consistent with international standards.

However, the stands do have some shortcomings. “Many questions are raised about the fact that the developers of these maps did not apply orientation to the north, and have provided layouts of the surrounding areas with respect to the exits,” says Novichkov. “A system like that is used for road navigators, but most of the ‘paper’ guides and maps are oriented strictly to north. The subway map is also oriented to north, so people may become confused.”

Muscovites and foreign visitors are generally positive about these navigation elements, with most of them citing the numbered exits from the subway as the most useful feature.

The fact is that many Moscow subway stations have several exits. One of the busiest central stations of the Moscow subway in particular, Kitay-Gorod, has more than a dozen exits. Previously, these exits were differentiated from each other only with signs in Russian referring to the names of streets and places of interest to which they led – making it easy for tourists and those with poor navigation skills to get confused.

Now, when making an appointment to meet a friend, instead of struggling to find the right spot when they tell you: “I'll meet you at the exit to Solyanka Street,” you can just propose to meet under a specific exit number.

“I’ve lived in Moscow for seven years,” says Angelika, a designer from Voronezh, “but I still don’t always know where to go to find the place I need, so the new schematic diagrams will be very useful. Previously, some subway stations had maps, but not with so much detail.”

Teething problems

Foreigners, meanwhile, focus their attention on other elements. “It is good that the new information boards have QR-codes, which can be ‘read’ by smartphones,” says Florentina, a writer from Vienna. But there are also shortcomings. “The English font of the information on posters and in the captions to theaters and museums is too small – you have to come very close to see it well,” she says.

Pleasant encounters on the streets of Moscow

Florentina was also dissatisfied with the fact that such posters are not provided at all subway stations: “When I was trying to find Tsaritsyno Park (a museum and reserve in the south of Moscow) at a subway station with the same name, it turned out to be quite difficult,” she says.

“There are no maps with landmarks for other areas, such as those already in the city center. There were no clear pointers in the English language, and the passers-by I met did not speak in English, so they could not help me,” she adds.

Officials say that the navigation system is gradually being redeveloped and improved. According to Darya Chuvasheva, a press representative for the Department of Transport of Moscow, the introduction of a unified navigation system will take place in stages.

“By the end of 2014, the system will first appear on the first subway stations on the Circle Line. By the end of 2015, we plan to install the system at all major stopping points, subway stations and transport interchange hubs,” says Chuvasheva.

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Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

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Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

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Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

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Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

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