Entered the top 10 of the most viewed films on the Netflix platform in France, this film with Johnny Depp had been exhausted by critics as well as the public when it was released.
If Johnny Depp is currently present on Netflix via the documentary series Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard, also swept up by the press, subscribers are tempted en masse by his film The Tourist, with Angelina Jolie, released in theaters in December 2010 and which had received very bad reviews. With an average AlloCiné rating of 1.6 stars out of 5 given by the press and 2.2 by the public, we can see that the film has divided a lot. It is now being rediscovered by a wide audience.
Depp plays a recently estranged math teacher who decides to go sightseeing in Europe. On the train that takes him from Paris to Venice, he meets an intriguing woman named Élise who seduces him. But love at first sight will be short-lived and the romance will turn into a chase!
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The Tourist is an American remake of the French film Anthony Zimmer, directed by Jérôme Salle with Sophie Marceau, Yvan Attal and Sami Frey. We entrust the production to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose first feature The Lives of Others was very well received, leaving with the Oscar for best foreign language film.
For his remake, he works with two of the biggest stars of the 2000s, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, which is to say if the result was highly anticipated. But the disappointment was obviously quite great at the time of its release, Le Monde judging the film as presenting on paper a pleasure “at hand” but remaining “out of reach”filmed “with the lightness of a Panzer” according to TéléCinéObs and Positif accusing him of not being “neither endearing, nor twirling, nor well played”. Le Figaroscope will even qualify it as “gogo trap”.
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However, a new audience is massively rediscovering this feature film. If we can find Johnny Depp a little absent and Angelina Jolie not really involved, we can also see Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton or Rufus Sewell but also the “Frenchies” Bruno Wolkowitch or Clément Sibony.
If you’re into Johnny Depp, you can also watch Donnie Brasco on Netflix; if Angelina Jolie, who you liked more, her films Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Bone Collector and First They Killed My Dad are also on the platform.