Most of the entries are extended in various theatres (let’s see who has the longest legs at the tills), so it’s not surprising if they’d make additional revenues, what with the foreign films that opened after the filmfest not really that attractive, like “The Tourist”, “Gulliver’s Travels”, “Little Fockers” and “Tron”. We’ve seen “The Tourist” and it’s really such a disappointing vehicle for big Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. Directed by the German filmmaker who won the Oscar foreign language film for “The Lives of Others” (a truly much superior film), “The Tourist” is about an innocent bystander who gets embroiled in dangerous situations due to her involvement with a mysterious woman. This kind of story is the stuff that Alfred Hitchcock was so adept in doing and, maybe, if he were the one who did it, it’d have come out better. But Depp (who’s at his best as the inebriated Jack Sparrow) is so miscast in the role (the kind played with much charm by the likes of Cary Grant and James Stewart in Hitchcock’s films). Angelina looks properly beautiful and alluring as the female lead, but she’s still no Grace Kelly or Ingrid Bergman (who excelled in Hitchcock films.) It’s also so easy to guess the twist in the story.
