Elise chooses Frank, an American tourist to be her decoy, while she sits beside him on a train. She convinces him that she is her lover, and tells him that the police are after him. She takes his advantages in escaping from the police and the thugs whose money her lover took away and ran.
As for Depp, his character makes so little sense that he can hardly be blamed for blinking his way through the movie with an expression of blank-faced puzzlement that recalls Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice-presidential debate.
It's a self-conscious attempt at a Hollywood caper with the mix of comedy, romance and conspiracy watered down to the point where you can see straight through it.
The Tourist merely asks you to sit back and enjoy the ride, and then makes that task a breeze.
Examiner.com
September 22, 2012
[The Tourist] is very entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable from the very start and doesn't let up until the screen goes black, which is something that very few films are able to pull off nowadays.
