Out In The Thriller Night- Johnny Depp’s The Tourist (And That Woman With The Big Lips Too)

DVD Review

The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp, Angela Joie

For starters I am almost always willing to take a chance on anything, any film that the madcap actor (and my muse the late Hunter Thompson’s friend) Johnny Depp puts his name to. With rare exceptions (the big one being his role as that self-same Hunter Thompson in the film adaptation of his book Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas) I have not been disappointed. And while I was not disappointed here the story line, and the antic –laden thriller did not do justice to his, or co-star Angela Joie’s (she of the big lips in the title), talents.

After all how hot and bothered is one to get over the whereabouts of a crackerjack thief, dough thief, big dough, billions and that is big dough even today, from a British gangster, and from the British tax boys looking for their graft, named Alexander Pearce anyway. And also constantly following a beautiful woman with big luscious red lips and a quaky English accent and who is filled to the brim, filled I tell you, with ennui looking to meet her man. And of course that gangster, that nasty gangster full of hubris and quirky habits. The problem though, and this may have to do with the nature of star power and Hollywood’s take on it, is how far into the movie will it take to figure out who that Mister Pearce really is. Guess?