The International
An Interpol agent and a U.S. prosecutor join forces to shut down a bank's funding of terrorism.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Released
- 2009
- Country
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Turkey
Details
Release year: 2009
Storyline
An Interpol agent and a U.S. prosecutor join forces to shut down a bank's funding of terrorism.
Top credits
Clive Owen ā Louis Salinger
Naomi Watts ā Eleanor Whitman
Armin Mueller-Stahl ā Wilhelm Wexler
Ulrich Thomsen ā Jonas Skarssen
Did you know
ā¢ An explosive shootout scene is set inside New York's famous Guggenheim Museum. The production team used the Guggenheim's original blueprints to build a full-size replica of its interior in an abandoned locomotive warehouse. Construction took four months.
ā¢ Originally scheduled for release in August 2008. After badly-received previews, It was reshot to turn it into more of an action film. It was released in February 2009 during the worst banking crisis in U.S. history.
ā¢ Inspired by the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) banking scandal, which took place in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $25,450,527
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $9,331,739 (2009-02-15)
User reviews
Better film than critics give it credit
Conventional for Tykwer means still among the best of this formulaic type of corporate espionage flick
Efficient thriller, relevant for our times
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
