fajrdrako | Duplicity...

Went yesterday to see the movie Duplicity with Pat, Sandi, and Lyn.

It was one of many movies that had all of us us (sitting in the last row) laughing very shortly into the movie - we thought it witty and funny. The rest of the audience didn't laugh till practically the end. Do Canadians not laugh? How could they not?

Okay, it's not a rollicking comedy. It's witty and wry. Clever. Snarky. The plot: two spies (Clive Owen and Julia Roberts) meet and sleep together. Then all sorts of things happen, everyone is tricking everyone else (or not), there's industrial espionage and a mysterious formula that everyone wants, and it's a safe bet that most of the characters are lying most of the time, while the movie is trying to trick the audience into mis-guessing who is doing what to whom and why. And mostly it succeeds, which it can do, because the characters all know more than we do.

As we left the theatre, Sandi said, "That was like Ocean's Eleven, only with a couple instead of a group." Yup. Good call. Except I liked it better; Ocean's Eleven bored me.