De nieuwe film The Tourist, die dit weekend in de Verenigde Staten in premiere is gegaan, is door de Amerikaanse critici genadeloos afgekraakt. Er werd veel verwacht van de eerste samenwerking tussen de twee grootste filmsterren van dit moment, Angelina Jolie en Johnny Depp, zeker toen ook nog eens de veelgeprezen regisseur Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Das Leben der Anderen) aan het roer kwam te staan, maar de film blijkt dus uitermate tegen te vallen. Hieronder lees je een greep uit de zeer negatieve recensies.
What's served under a label promising first-class champagne tastes like last night's prosecco in The Tourist. Staggeringly misjudged in virtually every department, from the wannabe effervescent script to Johnny Depp's dopey hairdo, this zero-chemistry pairing of Angelina Jolie and Depp stands as an object lesson in the perils of succumbing to the siren call of big-time Hollywood filmmaking for a foreign director with one art house hit behind him.
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
In a year of craptaculars, The Tourist deserves burial at the bottom of the 2010 dung heap. It offers talented people trapped in creative inertia. A microscope and a search party could not discover any trace of chemistry between Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. They look like a couple who took too many Ambien tabs on a jet trip to Venice, leaving them dazed and slack-jawed when they finally get to the city of canals. Of course, one of them falls in. The movie is already all wet. The Tourist reaches its own kind of perfection it fails on every conceivable level.
Sometimes it can be grisly fun to watch a movie that's been kept from view until the last moment because the studio knows it's a stinker. But watching "The Tourist," with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, is just plain grisly. This woefully botched mystery-adventure-thriller-caper-romance-comedy, or whatever it was meant to be, is no fun at all. In fact, the film, set in Venice, is grisly plus saddening, since it was directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, the German filmmaker whose Oscar-winning debut feature, "The Lives of Others," remains a recent treasure of the movie medium. Who knows how his pursuit of a Hollywood career landed him in such a rancid stew?
Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
