MY Full Review At My Journalist’s blog http//themetreporter.blogspot.com
or @ suite101.com/content/johnny-depp-in-the-tourist-a-hitchcock-type-mistaken-identity-a327523
Excerpt:
Johnny Depp’s latest film after another Tim Burton hit Alice In Wonderland is an understated espionage thriller with a clever twist ending.
Hitchcock Mistaken Identity Genre The Tourist is a strangely understated "Mistaken Identity" Thriller and Hitchcock North By Northwest copycat set in Venice, remake of 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer . The remake factor will be lost on most fans so I’ll skip it here.
Angelina Jolie is charming as seeming femme fetale or at least mysterious enigmatic woman on a train Elise(also copied from North By Northwest), a bewildering achievement considering her botoxed expressionless. Depp plays a Keith Richards fitting-in at the Ritz convincingly enough.
The similarities with Hitchcock’s thriller don’t end there with quickfire dialogue on the train, and a room escape out of the window, climbing the roof that also emulates Live and Let Die.