The Tourist

Variety by Justin Chang

Like a beautifully tailored suit that starts to smell funny after a few minutes, this sumptuous but stultifying lark sets up a quasi-Hitchcockian intrigue between two strangers abroad, but smothers any thrills or sparks in a haze of self-regard.

Empire by Kim Newman

If you just want to look with admiration and Johnny and/or Angelina – and why wouldn't you? – this offers the full scenic tour, but it's one of those frustrating almost-good films which never really catches fire.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

A facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on "Charade," and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen's 1963 picture.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The Tourist isn't a debacle, but it's a caper that's fatally low on carbonation.

Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez

The film suffers from a severe lack of urgency and emotional engagement. You can't get involved in a movie in which the characters all seem to be harboring double identities.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

There's a way to make a movie like The Tourist, but Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck doesn't find that way.

Orlando Sentinel by Roger Moore

The script piles the preposterous on top of the absurd and the film's thin charms dissipate, revealing the creaking movie star contraption underneath.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

If Elise and Frank are opaque to each other, they're opaque for a reason, as, sadly, lovers sometimes are. (Come to think of it, this picture has more in common with "The Lives of Others" than you might expect.)

Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall

The Tourist is less likely to be remembered for its cat-and-mouse machinations than for the beautiful people carrying them out.

The Hollywood Reporter by Todd McCarthy

Staggeringly misjudged in virtually every department, from the wannabe effervescent script to Johnny Depp's dopey hairdo.