An African-born United Nations interpreter (Nicole Kidman) overhears a plan to assassinate an African head of state scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly. She also becomes a target of the assassination. In order to stop the plot, she must convince a stalwart Secret Service agent (Sean Penn) that she is telling the truth. He, though, believes she's vulnerable and hiding something.
Interpreter THIS (3.5 stars)
Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn are both politically astute, liberal and upright, and there is no doubt that Penn supports the United Nations (Penn recently visited Baghdad and took out a full-page advert in the Washington Post, in which he criticised President George Bush for his war plans). Filmed in the United Nations New York city headquarters, the feature gives us more than just what Nicole Kidman calls, 'extra credibility'. With lines like, 'words are slower than bullet, but last longer', or such such -- it would be very hard to convince me that this isn't a sponsor project of the United Nations. 'Armageddon' for instance, was a sponsor project of NASA (it's...
Interpreter, The Nicole Kidman is the titular interpreter in Sydney Pollack's convoluted political thriller set in the United Nations building in New York
From her nasal Southern twang in Cold Mountain to the dodgy Russian lisp she curled her lips around in Birthday Girl, Nicole Kidman has always had a problem with accents. In The Interpreter she comes up with an unlikely sounding drawl - part African French and Spanish according to the script - to play Silvia Broome, an interpreter at the United Nations headquarters in New York, who overhears a plot to assassinate an African head of state.
Fortunately for Kidman, her accent isn't the only thing that fail...
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I saw this at the cinema, and to be honest, I'm glad I gave what looked like a conventional thriller a chance on the big screen. Handled with enormous panache by old hand Sydney Pollack, this is big-heated Hollywood professionalism at its very best.
Admittedly, I could watch Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman make toast, but they invest their roles with genuine commitment, and the adorable Catherine Keener provides admirable support. This is an extremely old-fashioned Hitchcock-with-a-heart style movie, with gleaming cinematography, two or three masterful suspense sequences, and even an idea rattling around for good measure. It's not a classic, but either as a night out or a night it...
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An earnest thriller that grows more confusing and less interesting by the minute, weighing down its central characters with so much guilt and misery that its purpose is flattened.
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Kidman piles on dimensions to her character the more we learn about her spotty political past...
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The best thriller of the year so far - smart and tense... gripping.
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