A bland, badly directed, star-driven cinematic molestation of Jérôme Salle's tight-as-a-drum 2005 French thriller Anthony Zimmer.

This should be a potent combination, but it turns out to be a fizzer.

The tone is lightly comic, the dialogue flirty and amusing but the performances are unengaged. There's no floor of reality, as there always was in a Hitchcock film, even his light confections.

It's a dull, tedious romantic thriller with clumsy twists, serving only as a banal pretext to reunite the chemistry-less couple Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp amidst cosmopolitan elegance. [Full review in Spanish]