Who are Those Guys?

Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2005)

I realized I liked this when I was willing to watch it on commercial TV (and I had already seen it in the theater!). Interesting, exciting thriller with international setting; the Damon/Potente pairing made it special, like Redford/Dunaway in 3 Days of the Condor (a similar story). The action scenes are just a little different from the usual. How did they get so many good actors for a relatively routine story? Free trip to Europe? Like Redford, Damon isn't usually labeled a "great" actor, although both have consistently been convincing in entertaining movies. I'm glad they made this movie; the book is too long. Maybe that's why so many books are so long; encourage people to see the inevitable movie instead.