Review of Duplicity (2009) by Bob M — 21 Mar 2010
Why do corporate CEOs get such big bonuses? Answer: Because they are able to use their entire organization to attack their counterparts in other organizations. Or so Duplicity would have you believe. That and the fact that they hire former MI-6 and CIA agents to do their corporate espionage for them. Duplicity got me to suspend my disbelief about that, but unfortunately, it could barely keep me awake the first 45 minutes as it explained it.
Clive Owen and Julia Roberts did a good job as those aforementioned former agents. The interaction between them was entertaining (eventually) as the two former agents that fall for each other. Which took some time since, as former agents, they never knew when to believe each other. Anyway, the two of them attempted to scam both the large corporations only to discover that a CEO also gets his hugh annual bonus because he's craftier than two former intelligence agents. Now I will no longer feel so bad when I see those large CEO bonuses reported in the Wall Street Journal.....
This review of Duplicity (2009) was written by Bob M on 21 Mar 2010.
Duplicity has generally received mixed reviews.
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