MOVIE - Duplicity

Very entertaining
Viewed: May 7, 2009 at Crossroads Cheapie
Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
My rating: 70%
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Released: March 20, 2009
(PG-13) 2:05
Julia Roberts, Clive Owen
Director: Tony Gilroy

This movie kept me totally entertained for over two hours. At first I thought that it was going to be convaluted and hard-to-follow, but it wasn't. It had a lot of good twists and turns, nothing too, too surprising, and watching Julia Roberts and Clive Owen on the big screen is always a treat, regardless of what the plot is!

Roberts and Owen meet in Dubai five years previous to the major plotline, both government operatives (CIA/M16). She spends the night with him, then steals secrets from his briefcase, drugs him to give herself a good start, and disappears. Of course they meet again....but for awhile we wonder about when and how. Flashbacks give us the story in pieces, but it makes total sense (not a lot of brow furrowing wondering what in heck is going on). The plot is plausible. Two huge manufacturing companies compete with top secrets. Their heads, Tom Wilkinson and Paul Gianetti, are really great, and fun to watch. The ending was great, a bit unexpected, and cleverly done.

Totally entertaining. I'm glad I saw it.