Sydney Pollack's restrained, bloodless potboiler, the first film ever shot inside the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters, clearly aims to be an alternative to the brainless, frenetic action cartoons that have supplanted chillingly intelligent political thrillers like THE DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973) or Pollack's own THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975). But its talky, sluggish script is so bereft of thrills — intellectual or otherwise — that even the film's one masterfully staged sequence, in which five key characters converge on a Brooklyn bus while baffled federal agents scramble to figure out what's going on, falls flat. United Nations interpreter Silvia Broome (Nicole...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
123 mins