The Tourist - and that's why I don't travel.

Weekday matinee movies are a funny thing. It's like an adventure for everyone involved. Everyone there has nothing else better to do, and for that reason you don't care whether or not the movie is good because you got the theater experience in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday. A couple weeks ago, my roommates and I set out to see The Tourist. I wasn't particularly interested in seeing this film but for reasons previously stated, I went anyway.


This movie begins with the beautiful and captivating Angelina Jolie caught in the middle of some sort of CIA-type investigation. After besting the tracking agents a number of times, she introduces the audience to Johnny Depp, an innocent bystander to be used as a pawn in their scheme. After a number of amusing and impossible incidents the two fall in love and the movie ends with a surprising twist. 


I've always been a sucker for a good heist/secret agent movie. That is not what I would call this. The film presents potential in the first half-hour but quickly takes a dive when Angelina herself turns out to be an agent working on the case. Beyond this, the two spend less than twenty-four hours together before falling in love. Not only is this unrealistic, they don't experience enough together to warrant an emotional bond. Therefore, their love, to the viewer not only seems impossible, but shallow. 


I didn't like this movie. I would not watch it again. But like I always say, a couple hours of Johnny Depp never hurt anyone. The measure of good looking people cast in this film, made it completely worth my time and the six dollars I paid for it. That, though, is really all the good I can say for it.