Duplicity : Movie Review


Tony Gilroy -- the writer of the "Bourne" movies and the writer-director of "Michael Clayton" and now the romantic caper "Duplicity" -- is supposedly one of the smartest screenwriters we've got. The bummer is that he's too tricky for his own good. In "Duplicity," Julia Roberts and Clive Owen play Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval: She's CIA, he's MI5, and when they meet at a July Fourth party in Dubai, it's lust at first sight -- until she drugs him, rifles through his stuff for valuable top-secret information, and slinks off into the ether, never to be seen again. Until, that is, the two re-encounter each other some time later and engage in a prickly exchange that suggests neither has been able to forget the other. "The last thing I remember before I passed out," Ray tells Claire, fixing her in the gaze of his unblinking bedroom eyes, "is how much I liked you."

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Author : Stephanie Zacharek