Julia Roberts and Clive Owen join together again for this fun adventure in corporate intrigue. Actually, I’ll let the individual decide how much fun it is to watch two billion-dollar corporations try to ruin each other. Duplicity comes to us from the writer/director behind Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy. In a lot of ways, the movies are similar in that you have no idea what will happen next and there is always that next twist.
Claire (Julia Roberts) and Ray (Clive Owen) are ex-CIA and MI6, respectively. They decide to partner up and combine their skills in deception in order to defraud the private sector and live the rest of their lives happily ever after. Claire goes to work undercover for one company while actually working for the other. Ray later joins the team, and they pretend not to know each other in order to gain their own ends. The movie reveals its twists and turns through a series of flashbacks, where the layers of deception become more and more dense.
I personally really enjoyed the movie once I decided not to try and figure out what was happening. And just fair warning, there will be one twist too many. I also thoroughly enjoyed Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson as the CEOs of the competing companies. They are an absolute hoot.
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This movie made my brain hurt. I don’t think I liked it…I loved the acting though–and the way it was filmed. Amber, you are correct as usual–one plot twist too many…