Is it possible to go to a Julia Roberts movie and be bored out of your mind for two hours? The answer is yes! My gosh. I left the theater about 45 minutes ago, and I still think this pile... is still piling up! Duplicity starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. It has to be experienced.
Duplicity is a relatively good story about two former international spies, (Roberts and Owen), who devise a plan to go into the private corporate espionage business. They fall in love and work from each side of two major companies to try to swindle them out of heavily guarded corporate secrets. They hope to pull it off, pocket 40 million dollars, and disappear forever.
But I'm going to stop the love-fest right there, and get down to the brass tacks of Duplicity. It's 2:05 long, and feels like 5:02. Told in flashback form, Duplicity is so impressed with itself that it get too twisty and turny, it just gets fatiguing. Oh, and did I mention flashbacks......after flashback...after flashback...my gosh man make it stop!
You can always tell when a movie is trying to be too smart for its own good. When people start bailing after about 90 minutes, and actually leaving the theater. There was just too much to swallow here. It's kind of like trying to eat an entire jar of peanut butter all at once. And that's what happened today. Just too much log rolling, and TOO MANY FLASHBACKS! For heavens sake. They flashback you right till the very end, and it makes for a long movie.
To its credit, the original story I think is pretty strong. The soundtrack is fun, and the opening credit scene is highly creative, and downright "laugh out loud" funny. There are moments where Duplicity is funny, but it doesn't save it. It's just too slow, and spins in the mud. Roberts is back on the screen and that's a good thing, and I know Owen is the next "big thing" but his last two movies, this one and The International, have just been snoozers. Pack your pillow for this one too.
Duplicity. Fifteen minutes of top notch entertainment, spread out over a two hour show.
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