Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

paulclaassen 40 Minutes into the film it still made no sense and I had no idea what the film was supposed to be about. A waste of a good cast - give it a skip.

LeonLouisRicci This One may be just a Notch too Clever and Complicated for its own Good as it Almost seems Apparent from the Get-Go that this is going to Alienate a lot of Leisurely Types that are Looking for some Breezy Entertainment to Kick-Back and Take a Break and Breathe Easily. Not a Chance.It is a Ramped Up and Rotated, Turned and Twisted, Back and Forth Film for Thinkers. it Challenges You Every Time it Flashes Back. it Makes You Pay Attention Every Time it Monologues. It Asks You to Listen Up and Stay Frosty. it can be Very Rewarding in the End but if You are not up to the Task, its going to Wear You Out and Put You through the Ringer.There are Laughs and Deadpan Delights with Two Movie Stars Backed Up with Two Leading Supporting Character Actors. So there is Clive Owen and Julia Roberts with Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti in Director/Writer Tony Gilroy's Snappy, Sizzling Rom-Com-Dram and it is All Done with Style and Glitz as it Makes Gleeful Fun out of those Corporate Types that are Very Serious about Shaving Cream and Toothpaste.

dromasca If there is such a thing like a film to smart to enjoy 'Duplicity' written and directed by Tony Gilroy would certainly qualify. It is not that scriptwriter Gilroy misses smart stories in his CV - he wrote the 'Bourne' series (based on Robert Ludlum's novels), 'Proof of Life' and 'Devil's Advocate'each of them smart. The problem with Duplicity is that he did not find a better director than Tony Gilroy to direct a script which has many surprises, hidden angles, flashbacks and twists but too few of them are being turn into moments of good cinema suspense or emotions.Duplicity is the story of two ex-spies (one CIA - Julia Roberts, one MI-6 Clive Owen) who go private and plan a big scam by getting hired by two competing moguls in the shampoo industry. In a world where eavesdropping is the rule, where nobody trusts anybody, where every word hides a lie which hides an even bigger lie being a couple of spies and lovers means first of all trusting each other? Is trust possible? this is the permanent question and the answer is so many times no that when time comes to answer yes the answer is simply not credible.The two lead actors create chemistry and they cannot act bad, but chemistry and good acting is not enough, especially as both Roberts and Owen look or are made to look in this film a little bit beyond the peaks of their respective sex-appeals. This may be intentional, as even sexy spies start getting old at some point, and this is a credible situation of life, but simply does not fit the profile of an action movie. On the other side the twists and layers and flashbacks in time are so many and so often that at some point in time I lost interest in watching the action, and believe me, this seldom happens to me in an action movie. Duplicity simply tries to hard to be smart, and the style of director Gilroy does not make justice to the scriptwriter Gilroy.

wilsr Good news and bad news.First the good news: I didn't pay AUS$10 to see this movie at the local cinema.The bad news is that I did pay AUS$8.99 for the DVD.What on earth induced the cast to agree to appear in this dog? Is Ms Roberts really that short of cash? I can only think that, because they were able to read the script (there *was* a script?) they could see how it all worked out at the end. Then they (not, unfortunately, the audience) might - just might - be able to retrospectively piece together the disconnected storyline that came before the denouement.Just because a director knows how a storyline develops doesn't give him the OK to make it so disjointed as to be unintelligible and then call it intellectual, challenging, clever or even interesting. It's just disjointed. Period. One could throw in self indulgent for good measure.There's nothing wrong with constructing a plot line that doesn't have the clues jumping out in your face - of course that's an essential part of a good movie - but to use multiple flashbacks covering most of the developed world in random time order as this movie does is just insulting.My wife and I sat through this ghastly mishmash of a film right to the bitter end: every so often a voice from the other chair would say "Do you have any idea what's going on?" and sometimes "Is it almost over?" I won't make any comment on the cast, the acting, the cinematography and so on - *nothing* could save this moronic effort.