welcome, infidel!

I wasn't going to watch this one because the trailer looked kind of dumb. But I stumbled across a review of it that made it sound pretty decent, and I thought I'd check it out. It might have also had the words "naked" and "Angelina Jolie" in it. I can't remember.

The movie is so full of twists and turns that I'm not sure that I could even describe what happened in it if I wanted to. But, in a nutshell:

Someone is murdered in Montreal. Since Canada has no competent policemen, Angelia Jolie (who works for the FBI) is flown up from Washington to investigate the crime. Why she does this is never adequately explained; maybe she has some great reputation, but the ending of the movie would seem to discount that explanation. But anyway:

For awhile things more or less follow the usual pattern. Dead person turns up, detectives seek clues, people stare at pictures of mangled people and mutter to themselves, people have trouble sleeping, another dead person turns up, etc.

Things get either interesting or ridiculous (depending on your point of view) once the movie starts identifying suspects. It then becomes a sort of shell game while these people are shuffled around; is it this guy? Is it that guy? Did the guy who was just killed and we think did it really do it? Maybe not? Are there really FBI agents this hot?

Which brings me to the most important topic in this review: Angelina Jolie is naked. Not only is she naked, she apparently enjoys being dry-humped on top of broken glass. I have never tested out this technique, but I'm thinking it might not be quite as effective as it is in the movie. Still, Angelina is looking good, and we get to see quite a bit of her.

The rest of the cast was competent, if not particularly outstanding. I believe two of them were native French speakers (though probably not Canadian), and the rest (wisely) did not attempt to affect a rrrrrrrridiculous French accent.

Worth a rental, but not suitable for kids to watch.