This is the official movie poster of The Tourist, featuring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.
At the next scene, Elise randomly sits next to an American tourist, Frank Tupelo (Johnny Depp), on a Venice-bound train.
The police have been following Elise for over two years waiting for her to contact Alexander Pierce, who embezzled over $2 Billion from a mobster. The British Economic Police want to collect its huge share of taxes from that money.
The police doesn't know how he looks like, so they need Elise to identify him.
Frank, a math teacher, was dragged into the problem and therefore, he was being chased the policeman and mobs as well.
Basically the storyline is about Elise and Frank evading the police and the mobster, whose money was stolen by Alexander. Frank was actually used by Elise to make them believe that it's Alexander. As a result, Frank was innocently involved.
Feeling guilty, Elise told Frank to leave Venice but he stayed on to be with her because it seems that he is in love with her.
The plot is quite shallow, not much build up and suspense, while the actions are somehow predictable. Police and mobs chase them, they run and save their life. As simple as that. Being set in Venice doesn't make it any interesting. "Alexander Pierce" doesn't seem to show up at all.
Towards the ending, the mobs were eventually killed by the police and, as expected, Elise and Frank were saved! But there is a twist at the very end, Frank Tupelo turned out to be Alexander Pierce himself! He was pretending not to be Alexander all along and later on mentioned that huge some of money was used to restructure his face.
Overall, typical Angelina Jolie action movie and Johnny Depp with his usual humour. Jolie's "Salt" is definitely better.
Noobie Rating: 5/10 (No harm watching, but I'd rather save that money for a Venice trip)
