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# The International

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## Description

Product Description Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in an adrenaline-pumping, action-packed thrill ride about a man determined to deliver justice to a corrupt international arms-dealing ringthat funds worldwide genocide and terrorism...no matter the cost! desertcart.com The International is actually two movies in one: A highbrow thriller about a sprawling bank that resorts to murder and arms sales to retain its power, and a sleek visual essay on how architecture and interior design shapes your perceptions. Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen, still not quite a star despite Inside Man and Children of Men) has been on the brink of conclusive evidence against the villainous international bank, but his sources always end up dead. With the aid of a Manhattan district attorney (Naomi Watts in a woefully underwritten part), he stumbles on the trail of the bank's favorite hit man, who might provide the (literally) smoking gun Louis needs. The International starts out smooth and silky, with visual style to burn and Owen's intense fervor. The plot gradually bogs down in incoherent moralizing, but along the way there are some taut sequences, including a bloody shootout in the Guggenheim Museum where alliances shift unexpectedly. But what makes The International worth seeing is director Tom Tykwer's astute eye for public space: Chic postmodern buildings, broad Italian plazas, Turkish rooftops like mountain paths--Tykwer orchestrates actors through these architectural shapes, his hypnotic visual sense creating far more tension and excitement than the plot. Also featuring Armin Mueller-Stahl (Eastern Promises) and Ulrich Thomsen (The Celebration) as malevolent Europeans. --Bret Fetzer Stills from The International (click for larger image)

Review: Nop - The movie was extremely intense don't walk away you will miss something and the sad part about it is this could happen very scary but yeah good movie
Review: Fact based war profit selling to both sides, banker to terrorists NYC DA Interpol investigation - "What seems to us more important, more painful, and more unendurable is really not what is more important, more painful and more unendurable, but merely that which is closer to home. Everything distant, which for all its moans and muffled cries, its ruined lives and millions of victims, that does not threaten to come rolling up to our threshold today, we consider endurable and of tolerable dimensions." Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star as an obsessed Interpol investigator and the NYC DA based on actual facts of the effort to go after the International banker to terrorists. The bank CEO was fired in Europe one day, appeared as the head of the Bank of Ukraine the next morning. The genial family man banker defends his behavior with "if you get me, there are 100s waiting in line behind me to take my place." The profitability of war debt to control politicians, selling war armaments to both sides of a conflict, and the bankers who finance the sales is a chilling action thriller, against the architecture of modernist Stasi Germany Lyon Mussolini's Rome, run down NYC's Guggenheim Museum, cisterns below and Grand Bazaar roofs wedged between the medieval Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia of Istanbul. Bonus Features: full film commentary, making of feature, architectural sites, slide show of the actual bank under investigation. Would definitely recommend The International full film commentary, a refreshing to listen to literate conversation in the public domain akin to BBC Foyle's War series fact based murder mysteries woven around archives of the British Imperial Museum curated by Terry Charman historian, Mass Observation Project diaries of ordinary UK citizens from 1937 to the present, archival newspaper reports, radio broadcasts, police records and trial transcripts of UK pre-WWII through the Cold War. Humor, historical truth, secrecy, politics, envy vanity power maximizing profits, diplomacy sacrifice. FDR described Stalin as a humorous drinking partner, charming host and social butterfly who never kept a promise vs Churchill taciturn stiff upper lip who could be depended upon to keep his word. 5*

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B001V7UTV6 |
| Actors  | Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brían O'Byrne, Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Ulrich Thomsen |
| Aspect Ratio  | 2.40:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #41,032 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #1,977 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV) #4,023 in Action & Adventure DVDs #6,434 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,380) |
| Director  | Tom Tykwer |
| Dubbed:  | French |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 5075023 |
| Language  | Unqualified |
| MPAA rating  | R (Restricted) |
| Media Format  | Subtitled |
| Number of discs  | 1 |
| Producers  | Charles Roven, Lloyd Phillips, Richard Suckle |
| Product Dimensions  | 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 2.5 ounces |
| Release date  | June 9, 2009 |
| Run time  | 1 hour and 58 minutes |
| Studio  | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Subtitles:  | English, French, Spanish |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Subtitled
- **Genre:** Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 58 minutes

## Images

![The International - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71TbTl88EsL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nop
*by L***E on October 19, 2025*

The movie was extremely intense don't walk away you will miss something and the sad part about it is this could happen very scary but yeah good movie

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fact based war profit selling to both sides, banker to terrorists NYC DA Interpol investigation
*by S***I on July 8, 2019*

"What seems to us more important, more painful, and more unendurable is really not what is more important, more painful and more unendurable, but merely that which is closer to home. Everything distant, which for all its moans and muffled cries, its ruined lives and millions of victims, that does not threaten to come rolling up to our threshold today, we consider endurable and of tolerable dimensions." Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star as an obsessed Interpol investigator and the NYC DA based on actual facts of the effort to go after the International banker to terrorists. The bank CEO was fired in Europe one day, appeared as the head of the Bank of Ukraine the next morning. The genial family man banker defends his behavior with "if you get me, there are 100s waiting in line behind me to take my place." The profitability of war debt to control politicians, selling war armaments to both sides of a conflict, and the bankers who finance the sales is a chilling action thriller, against the architecture of modernist Stasi Germany Lyon Mussolini's Rome, run down NYC's Guggenheim Museum, cisterns below and Grand Bazaar roofs wedged between the medieval Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia of Istanbul. Bonus Features: full film commentary, making of feature, architectural sites, slide show of the actual bank under investigation. Would definitely recommend The International full film commentary, a refreshing to listen to literate conversation in the public domain akin to BBC Foyle's War series fact based murder mysteries woven around archives of the British Imperial Museum curated by Terry Charman historian, Mass Observation Project diaries of ordinary UK citizens from 1937 to the present, archival newspaper reports, radio broadcasts, police records and trial transcripts of UK pre-WWII through the Cold War. Humor, historical truth, secrecy, politics, envy vanity power maximizing profits, diplomacy sacrifice. FDR described Stalin as a humorous drinking partner, charming host and social butterfly who never kept a promise vs Churchill taciturn stiff upper lip who could be depended upon to keep his word. 5*

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A decent and Intelligent Thriller
*by L***Y on August 25, 2009*

It is amazing how many reviewers here either didn't get this movie, or wish to rewrite it according to their own tastes. One complains, for example, that to be effective in this day the international bank involved should have been Lehman Brothers, as if he expected someone to write a good thriller about bundled mortgage securities! He fails to understand, apparently, that this movie is about a totally different global identity in existence today, the far more shadowy international bank that, as is said in the movie, the world's major nations will always need for money laundering, bribes, third world revolutionary support and weapons transactions. This is the subject behind this movie, and a valid one it of course is. Another reviewer professes confusion re the Clive Owen line in the movie about one sometimes meeting his destiny on the road one takes to avoid it. It was certainly clear, and reasonably eloquent as the Muller-Stahl character states, to me. In the context it was given, Owen was saying that the Muller-Stahl figure, a dedicated, 30 year hard-line Commie who with the collapse of that ideology in the early 90's had sold out to the capitalist system it was attacking, had now the chance to find some purpose to his life by using the very position he had taken in the corrupt, capitalist bank in question. In his accepting a path that allowed him to avoid trying to meet the original purpose of his life, he is now confronted with the opportunity to meet that very destiny he desired through supporting Owen in helping to defeat one of the more egregious symbols of that system. Owen does an excellent job in portraying a character who refuses to take that other road and give up his own, daunting purpose to bring down the bank he was originally assigned to do as a British operative. He is teamed with Watts, a New York-based Federal prosecutor, who's own role is just as dedicated if somewhat less detailed. There are the usual hard to swallow coincidences - the assassin the bank uses just happens to live in New York - and situations bordering on disbelief - why on earth would the bank's lead villain, already knowing that his chief lawyer-in-conspiracy has apparently been offed, allow himself to meet with a chief rival without an ample bodyguard? But the film more than makes up for these shortcomings by its intelligence, its topicality, and its visual excitement having to do with the capitalist world's 'power' architecture, though to include the Guggenheim Museum designed by the primarily Jeffersonian, anti-capitalist Frank Lloyd Wright, is a decided contradiction. Nevertheless, the gun fight scene that takes place so excitingly and shatteringly in that building can be said to be symbolic of how the modern global system has destroyed such earlier, more individualistic and pastoral ideologies. All in all one of the best international thrillers offered this decade, and worthy of at least 4 stars!

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