Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Johnny Depp obviously had a ball with his English accent as Captain Jack Sparrow, as he’s hung right onto it for this action thriller of a movie, if a little less garish and a tad more clipped. Travelling by plane rather than galley, it’s good to see Depp in contemporary atire, as lovely as he was as both a pirate and a hatter in recent years.
Here he’s a tourist – Frank – travelling around Europe, when his path is crossed by Angelina Jolie’s mysterious and beautiful Elise. After a flirtatious encounter it transpires that their meeting was less chance and more baldfaced engineering on Elise’s part, drawing him into a plan he has no understanding of and a deadly game of cat and mouse. Is there any other kind? Together Frank and Elise hit the road, trying to find safety and uncannily getting closer the more dangerous their situation. Maybe there’s something in this aphrodisiac called adrenaline.
So far so regulation thriller, but the fact this has Johnny Depp attached to it, as well as a supporting cast that includes Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff and Rufus Sewell promises an above average show.
Showing at Odeon and Cineworld
