Duplicity is Tony Gilroy's follow up to Michael Clayton and although there are very similar themes of corporate greed and internal deception, this is a much more complex and entertaining heist movie at heart. I really dug the begining where they used a slow-mo fight scene and music to show this battle b/w Paul Giamatti's character and Tom Wilkinon's corporate heads who's rival business' are at the forefront of this mystery. Julia Roberts and Clive Owen have great chemistry together and I enjoyed the structure of the film where we are shown one thing and believe what we see, only to go back in time to see how staged and planned their con is in order to infiltrate these two companies to profit from this mysterious new product.Wondering who was really playing who was fun because they actually talk about what they're thinking on screen, basically having their love for eachother revolve around their not trusting eachother but knowing how the other thinks. Instead of showing us how they plan the ultimate heist, I found myself thinking a lot more of how it would go down and excited that they tricked me so hard at the end to where it happens but I had no idea how they did it. Overall, I was very impressed by the cool editing techniques where they had multiple squares of frame showing different perspectives like 24 does as well as the quick dialogue and humor to it all. Julia Roberts was hotter than ever and I appreciated that she and Clive both seemed to be having fun instead of playing it so serious like the International did earlier this year. This movie is very complex but thought-provoking and worth the effort to get into as I was constantly changing my mind of who was gaming who so by the end, I believed the surprise that they presented us. Very fun time.
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