Whatever happened to the old fashioned spy sagas which had breakneck chases, busty women and non-stop action? Now it's all brooding fellows with sad back-stories.

The premise might be timely, but the execution is same old, same old.

A sure-footed and thrilling sidestep into cinema's mainstream.

The International is an occasionally cartoonish gut shot at the banking industry, its heroes white as white and its villains black as black.