I could only last for 36 mins at which point I got up and left. The direction was weak in my opinion, the dialog was weak, I felt nothing for either of the two main characters and really struggled to get involved in the plot.
If I didn't see Julia in another movie it would be too soon. Even Clive dropped a few notches for me after this one. I will have to watch a very good movie of his real soon to restore my opinion of him.
Great, it's because of idiots like you Hollywood is giving us garbage movies like Transformers 2 with no plot and excessive and pointless violence because you're too dumb to follow an intelligent storyline. You need explosions and bright colors and eye candy made out of actresses who can't actually ACT. Do you guys enjoy any movies at all where you have to use your brain and think ahead or think back or piece the story together on your own? Is that too strenuous? I mean, at least watch the entire thing so you can see the end and THEN give reasons as to why you think the movie was crap, once you've seen it as a whole. Not this, "I turned it off because it bored me" crap. What were you expecting it to be? We need more movies like Duplicity, and less of people like you.
There’s an eleven foot woman at the door with a chainsaw.
Your the idiot, you come into a thread titled 'the first movie I walked out on', then you got the hide to run your mouth. Your the bloody idiot wake up!. You know this movie got a bad rap and alot of folks were throughly dissapointed so maybe next time you can pick a better movie to abuse people over...loser!
@jbm 784. Hot tip for you mate, when calling someone else an idiot don't make the mistake of writing 'your' twice instead of the correct 'you're', it makes you look like an idiot ;)
Duplicity was redundant and uninteresting. I loved the opening slow-motion fight scene between between Giamatti and Wilkinson and the movie looked good, but in the end it was a one-trick pony and the trick wasn't a very good one. I agree that we need less Transformers 2 and more character, thought-driven films (I watched "Thief" this weekend and once again I wonder where has the character driven action film gone?) but Duplicity isn't a very good example of the type of film we need more of either. Even if you were paying close attention, Duplicity was at times confusing and convoluted. Plus, the lead characters were dull and the movie wasn't as nearly "fun" as it should have been.
Seeing as you are bold enough to call someone stupid and insinuate that you are intelligent, I'll just go ahead and be bold as well: I'm pretty *beep* intelligent myself.
I'm also intelligent enough to know that movies doesn't have to be like this movie. I enjoy movies with a depth, but I certainly enjoy movies where I can turn off my brain and ejoy bright colors, eye candy actors and so on. I'm intelligent enough to stimulate my brain through other means and instead enjoy movies for what they are: Entertainment.
I'm also intelligent enough to not feel superior to people not understanding everything I do.
You lasted about 20 minutes longer than me ... but i watched it at home so i could get up sporadically and do more entertaining things like watch paint dry and the kettle boil ... and come back to the TV to see the movie still floudering like a beached whale. The whole awful experience was beyond beige ... and talk about 'going through the motions' was Julia Roberts actually alive during the shoot ... or was she just wheeled in for each scene and puppeteered ... <<huge yawn>>
i am totally with you on this one... good thing u didnt watch it completely...
i knew it was a stupid movie the moment clive meets roberts again and she acts as if she didnt know him... comon... we have seen this scene in sooooo many movies...
the ending was sooo bad... how could anyone believe two spies getting conned by the germans... the moment they copied the formula onto the laptops i knew they will probably return the formula saying it was fake...
i also knew all along that they were working for the old guy businessman...
You have two options: Watch this movie again or never watch another movie.
The "moment clive meets roberts again and she acts as if she didnt know him" was a plot point throughout the film, how can you say you knew the film was stupid as soon as you saw this scene? Name another movie you've seen it in. Rediculous.
Also, I'm pretty sure they were Swiss and they didn't con anyone (Although I admit they could have). The formula was a fake to begin with.
I don't care for calling people stupid on these forums, but if you're gonna act so smart but then seemingly totally misunderstand what you saw I can't help it, you're stupid
Duplicity is a very good movie and the stars are shining . Julia is perfect in this. People really go to see Transformers or silly will smith movies, and dont talk about this movie with your capacity.
I think the majority of people who dis' this movie are doing so because they can't follow the plot twists. Too much Transformers is making the brain into jelly. I was rivited by this movie. Especially the scene where Julia's character is running around the building with the formula while Clive & Company are looking for a place for her to send it. Great pace in that scene!
I think it's unfair for people to say that if you didn't like the movie, you didnt' understand it. I completely understood the whole thing, and it had some interesting parts to it, and the twist at the end was the best part.
However,I found the repeating of that one line, "that's a strong play" over and over kind of annoying. The movie was in the spirit of Oceans 11, with a similiarly strong cast, but just didn't work. It tried to be too smart, threw out too many things and seemed to lose focus. That's my opinion. I'd give it a 6/10 due to lack of entertainment.
I have only seen the first half hour, and I plan on giving the movie a fair shot because it may redeem itself, but I have to say the beginning was boring. Their "verbal sparring" the first time they met was not clever at all, but it seemed as though they fancied themselves to be so. Also, the slow motion fight was WAY too long. I love intelligent twists and turns, so hopefully the movie picks up. I just didn't feel any kind of connection between the characters, and I didn't really care about them. Usually you want the audience to care about the characters. Like I said, I'm going to finish it. Who knows, maybe I'll come back here and write that I loved it, but the first half hour is boring.
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This is why I keep my Hollywood viewing to a minimum. This movie was horrible, the script was awful, the twists were predictable and the acting was horrible (and no I don't need explosions, quite the opposite actually, that's my whole beef with Hollywood, dung and explosions is all they are good for these days). I don't expect much from Roberts, but Clive, cmon what were you thinking.
It's like they wrote this script in a couple of hours. Gilroy's "Michael Clayton" was well done, this my frieds was awful. It's funny how people think this was an "intelligent" movie. lol
You want to see a decent "con artist" movie, rent "Nueve reinas".
This is why I look outside of Hollywood and the US for good cinema.
OP and others, your'e not the only ones to walk out. Thankfully, I was at home watching it on pay TV and I gave up after about an hour. Only my eternal optimism kept me going that long with hopes that the movie would improve ....but it never did. Boring: 3/10.
I'm at 47 minutes and reading this instead of watching the movie. I highly doubt I'll make another 80 minutes.
I agree with the earlier poster who doesn't care much for Julia Roberts. Though I did enjoy seeing her with socks stuffed in her bra in Erin Brokovich and the sound off.
I'm going to watch it tonight, but at least I've been warned by these reviews. I'll usually give a movie 30 minutes, at least. If it hasn't caught me by then, no need to watch anymore.
I can't lie and say that I felt differently the first hour. It was very hard for me to follow, although I did have a few too many minor distractions. I knew that I wouldn't figure it out really until the end, so I still gave it a shot.
Yeah, it's not perfect. It's probably not as clever or well written as Michael Clayton. However, the ending was hysterical I thought and well worth the watch. I honestly wasn't sure I even liked the movie at all until the very end. Afterwards, alot of what happened throughout the film made sense to me. Alot more sense.
This is one example of why you can't judge a film by it's first 30 minutes. You never know what can be thrown your way, so don't expect that you know everything or that it won't explain itself by the end of the film.
Yeah, it may seem unlikely that someone could come up with a hair product that could cure baldness. That doesn't matter though. Who knows, it may come to be in the future. Besides, who are we to say certain things can't happen and therefore cannot be believable in film. That's what filmmaking is all about - creativity. It doesn't have to make sense in our world today. Each film has its own world that is created by the writers of the story.
This film may not be perfect, but this is definitely not crap.