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* HighClassGloves: Elise wears [[UsefulNotes/OperaGloves opera-length gloves]] as accessories to her retro-glamour outfits throughout most of the movie.
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* DidNotSeeThatComing: Pearce’s plan hinged on Elise choosing a random man of his height and build to act as a patsy for the cops and criminals so he could act unimpeded. [[spoiler:Elise unwittingly choosing his newly disguised self as the decoy cripples his distraction scheme, and he spends the rest of the film scrambling to salvage the situation.]]
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The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) attempt to follow, she loses them en route to the ''Gare de Lyon'' and boards her intended train. There she meets math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp), a tourist from Wisconsin who is fond of spy novels and nervous around his new acquaintance. He thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, and what turns into light flirtation on the train holds the potential for so much more as Elise invites him back to her hotel in Venice.
[[caption-width-right:350:[[BigBrotherIsWatching Big brother is watching her and she looks good]].]]A 2010 movie with Creator/AngelinaJolie and Creator/JohnnyDepp in the main roles.
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The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson
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* ActionSurvivor: Frank, [[spoiler: is not one of these because he planned the whole thing.]].
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* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), he cuts the feds a check to get them off his back ''and'' he still has several billion dollars for his efforts]].
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* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), he cuts the feds a check for his back taxes to get them off his back ''and'' he still has several billion dollars for his efforts]].
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* FakeAmerican: Fake ''British'' as Angelina plays a British agent and [[spoiler: Johnny Depp plays Frank/Alexander an American pretending to be British who's actually pretending to be American.]]
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The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) attempt to follow, she loses them en route to the ''Gare de Lyon'' and boards her intended train. There she meets math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp,) a tourist from Wisconsin who is fond of spy novels and nervous around his new acquaintance. He thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, and what turns into light flirtation on the train holds the potential for so much more as Elise invites him back to her hotel in Venice.
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The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) attempt to follow, she loses them en route to the ''Gare de Lyon'' and boards her intended train. There she meets math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp,) (Depp), a tourist from Wisconsin who is fond of spy novels and nervous around his new acquaintance. He thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, and what turns into light flirtation on the train holds the potential for so much more as Elise invites him back to her hotel in Venice.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Lara Croft snags Jack Sparrow to help her evade the cops, led by JARVIS from ''Film/IronMan'' and James Bond.
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Just when Frank begins to think his luck couldn't get any better, a slew of foreign thugs descend upon him. Suddenly, he finds himself hunted by mobsters, crooked cops, and Scotland Yard's finance division as everyone seems eager to track down criminal mastermind Alexander Pearce. And unfortunately for Frank, their current suspect is him.
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Just when Frank begins to think his luck couldn't get any better, a slew of foreign thugs descend upon him. Suddenly, he finds himself hunted by mobsters, crooked cops, and Scotland Yard's finance division as everyone seems eager to track down criminal mastermind Alexander Pearce. And unfortunately Unfortunately for Frank, their current suspect is him.
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* ActionSurvivor: Frank, [[spoiler: except he's not]].
* ArtisticLicense: There's a shot where we see one of the police snipers. He is clearly silhouetted against the lit wall behind him, and is obviously a sniper. He could've just turned off the light switch for whatever's behind him, but he's apparently completely invisible to the target or anyone in Venice.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Elise was a cop at one point, assigned to go undercover to nab Alexander Pearce. Unfortunately, she fell in love with him. In the words of Inspector Acheson, she could never decide whether she was with Pearce or the cops.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Inevitably, when a movie's top-billers are two of the best-looking folks in the biz.
* ArtisticLicense: There's a shot where we see one of the police snipers. He is clearly silhouetted against the lit wall behind him, and is obviously a sniper. He could've just turned off the light switch for whatever's behind him, but he's apparently completely invisible to the target or anyone in Venice.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Elise was a cop at one point, assigned to go undercover to nab Alexander Pearce. Unfortunately, she fell in love with him. In the words of Inspector Acheson, she could never decide whether she was with Pearce or the cops.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Inevitably, when a movie's top-billers are two of the best-looking folks in the biz.
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* ActionSurvivor: Frank, [[spoiler: except he's not]].
is not one of these because he planned the whole thing.]].
* ArtisticLicense: There's a shot where we see one of the police snipers. He is clearly silhouetted against the lit wall behind him, and is obviously a sniper. He could'vejust turned off the light switch for whatever's behind him, but he's apparently completely invisible to the target or anyone in Venice.
he doesn't care about being seen.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Elise was a cop at onepoint, point and she was assigned to go undercover to nab Alexander Pearce. Unfortunately, she fell in love with him. In the words of Inspector Acheson, she could never decide whether she was with Pearce or the cops.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Inevitably, when a movie's top-billers are two of the best-looking folks in the biz.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Much of the early scenes are shown from the point of view of cops watching Elise through hidden cameras and such.
** They are pretty creepy about it, too. Zooming in her ass, speculating whether or not she's wearing panties. [[spoiler: This early scene gets retroactively creepier later in the movie, as it turns out she's one of their coworkers.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler: Alexander]]
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** They are pretty creepy about it, too. Zooming in her ass, speculating whether or not she's wearing panties. [[spoiler: This early scene gets retroactively creepier later in the movie, as it turns out she's one of their coworkers.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler: Alexander]]
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** They are pretty creepy about it, too. Zoomingsuch: zooming in her ass, speculating whether or not she's wearing panties. [[spoiler: This early scene gets retroactively creepier later in the movie, as it turns out she's one of their coworkers.]]
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* FakeAmerican: Fake British actually as Angelina plays a British agent and [[spoiler: Johnny Depp plays Frank/Alexander an American pretending to be British who's actually pretending to be American.]]
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* GambitPileup: Everyone conspiring against each other, and poor Frank is caught in the middle of it. [[spoiler: Except that he's the one who got everyone else caught in this mess: Frank IS Alexander, and getting mistaken for himself was his plan all along.]]
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* GambitPileup: Everyone Everyone's conspiring against each other, and poor Frank is caught in the middle of it. [[spoiler: Except that he's the one who got everyone else caught in this mess: Frank IS Alexander, and getting being mistaken for himself was his plan all along.]]]]
* GambitRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the scheme would have come apart.]] The point of it all is to provide a decoy that will keep the police and the crooks from catching Alexander. [[spoiler:If the decoy is Alexander all along,]] how does that work?
* GambitRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the scheme would have come apart.]] The point of it all is to provide a decoy that will keep the police and the crooks from catching Alexander. [[spoiler:If the decoy is Alexander all along,]] how does that work?
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* InspectorJavert: Inspector Acheson. He wants to continue pursuing Alexander Pearce, even after [[spoiler: Pearce leaves a check to cover the 'seven hundred and forty four million' he owed in back taxes. But Chief Inspector Jones declares the operation closed. "What is it (Pearce) really did? He stole money from a gangster. A dead gangster... I can't say I don't wish him well."]]
* JustTrainWrong: Where to begin? In less then five minutes they mange to screw it up four times. First of all the designation of the train Elise boards in Gare de Lyon is Ter, which stands for Transport express régional in French and is thus a regional, not an international train. Second of all, in the first aerial shot of the train we see an Italian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_500 Frecciarossa ETR 500]] which is used only on Italian High Speed lines and therefor would have no business departing Gare de Lyon in France.Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
** Plus there's no direct line between Paris and Venice.
** And "ten minutes" outside of Venice finds us looking at lush green hills. This is ''Venice'', a city built in a swamp and surrounded by industrial wasteland...
* KnightTemplar: Inspector Acheson
* JustTrainWrong: Where to begin? In less then five minutes they mange to screw it up four times. First of all the designation of the train Elise boards in Gare de Lyon is Ter, which stands for Transport express régional in French and is thus a regional, not an international train. Second of all, in the first aerial shot of the train we see an Italian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_500 Frecciarossa ETR 500]] which is used only on Italian High Speed lines and therefor would have no business departing Gare de Lyon in France.Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
** Plus there's no direct line between Paris and Venice.
** And "ten minutes" outside of Venice finds us looking at lush green hills. This is ''Venice'', a city built in a swamp and surrounded by industrial wasteland...
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* InspectorJavert: Inspector Acheson. He wants to continue pursuing Alexander Pearce, even after [[spoiler: Pearce leaves a check to cover the 'seven hundred and forty four million' he owed in back taxes. But taxes, but Chief Inspector Jones declares the operation closed. "What is it (Pearce) really did? He stole money from a gangster. A dead gangster... I can't say I don't wish him well."]]
* JustTrainWrong:Where to begin? In less then five minutes they mange to screw it up four times. First Often
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**Second of all, in the first aerial shot of the train we see an Italian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_500 Frecciarossa ETR 500]] which is used only on Italian High Speed lines and therefor would have no business departing Gare de Lyon inFrance.Third France.
**Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
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**And "ten minutes" outside of Venice finds us looking at lush green hills. This is ''Venice'', a city built in a swamp and surrounded by industrial wasteland...
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**First of all the designation of the train Elise boards in Gare de Lyon is Ter, which stands for Transport express régional in French and is thus a regional, not an international
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**Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
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* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), and he cuts the feds a check to get them off his back. Of course, he still has several ''billion'' dollars for his efforts]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler: And she quickly find out that choosing one of them over the other would have sucked a lot for BOTH Alexander and Frank, since they are actually the same person.]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler: And she quickly find out that choosing one of them over the other would have sucked a lot for BOTH Alexander and Frank, since they are actually the same person.]]
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* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), and he cuts the feds a check to get them off his back. Of course, back ''and'' he still has several ''billion'' billion dollars for his efforts]]
efforts]].
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler:And she She quickly find out that choosing one of them over the other would have sucked a lot for BOTH Alexander and Frank, since they are actually the same person.]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler:
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Elise]]
* WithMyHandsTied: Frank manages to escape from handcuffs twice, albeit once with assistance from Elise.
* XanatosRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the whole scheme would have come apart.]]
** Plus, the whole point of the scheme is to provide a decoy to keep the police and the crooks from catching Alexander. So [[spoiler:if the decoy is Alexander all along,]] how does that work?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shaw does this to one of his mooks. [[spoiler: By strangling him with a measuring tape, in the middle of being fitted for a new suit.]]
** Oddly enough, they all agree that his suit looks very good on him after that.
*** Would anybody have dared say otherwise? He still had that tape available you know.
* WithMyHandsTied: Frank manages to escape from handcuffs twice, albeit once with assistance from Elise.
* XanatosRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the whole scheme would have come apart.]]
** Plus, the whole point of the scheme is to provide a decoy to keep the police and the crooks from catching Alexander. So [[spoiler:if the decoy is Alexander all along,]] how does that work?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shaw does this to one of his mooks. [[spoiler: By strangling him with a measuring tape, in the middle of being fitted for a new suit.]]
** Oddly enough, they all agree that his suit looks very good on him after that.
*** Would anybody have dared say otherwise? He still had that tape available you know.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Elise]]
* WithMyHandsTied: Frank manages to escape from handcuffs twice, albeit once with assistance from Elise.
* XanatosRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out,Elise is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the whole scheme would have come apart.a cop tracking down Alexander.]]
** Plus, the whole point of the scheme is to provide a decoy to keep the police and the crooks * WithMyHandsTied: Frank escapes from catching Alexander. So [[spoiler:if the decoy is Alexander all along,]] how does that work?
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*** Would anybody have dared say otherwise? He still had that tape available you know.that.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BigBrotherIsWatching Big brother is watching her and she looks good]].]]A 2010 movie with AngelinaJolie and JohnnyDepp in the main roles.
The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) attempt to follow, she loses them en route to the ''Gare de Lyon'' and boards her intended train. There she meets math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp,) a tourist from Wisconsin who is fond of spy novels and nervous around his new acquaintance. He thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, and what turns into light flirtation on the train holds the potential for so much more as Elise invites him back to her hotel in Venice.
Just when Frank begins to think his luck couldn't get any better, a slew of foreign thugs descend upon him. Suddenly, he finds himself hunted by mobsters, crooked cops, and Scotland Yard's finance division as everyone seems eager to track down criminal mastermind Alexander Pearce. And unfortunately for Frank, their current suspect is him.
This movie is also (in)famous for earning a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Musical or Comedy category... despite not actually being a musical or comedy. Or, according to most critics, good.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Frank, [[spoiler: except he's not]].
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Elise was a cop at one point, assigned to go undercover to nab Alexander Pearce. Unfortunately, she fell in love with him. In the words of Inspector Acheson, she could never decide whether she was with Pearce or the cops.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Inevitably, when a movie's top-billers are two of the best-looking folks in the biz.
* BigBad: The gangster boss, Reginald Shaw.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Much of the early scenes are shown from the point of view of cops watching Elise through hidden cameras and such.
** They are pretty creepy about it, too. Zooming in her ass, speculating whether or not she's wearing panties. [[spoiler: This early scene gets retroactively creepier later in the movie, as it turns out she's one of their coworkers.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler: Alexander]]
* TheCaper
* CassandraTruth: When [[spoiler:Frank]] confesses to being Alexander Pearce. Zig-zagged in that he expected only some of his listeners to believe him.
* DaChief: Chief Inspector Jones, played by TimothyDalton of all people
* DeadpanSnarker: Inspector Jones
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Colonnello Lombardi, the Italian cop Frank first goes to when he realizes there are men out to kill him.]]
* FakeAmerican: Fake British actually as Angelina plays a British agent and [[spoiler: Johnny Depp plays Frank/Alexander an American pretending to be British who's actually pretending to be American.]]
* ForeignRemake: Of the French film ''Anthony Zimmer.''
* GambitPileup: Everyone conspiring against each other, and poor Frank is caught in the middle of it. [[spoiler: Except that he's the one who got everyone else caught in this mess: Frank IS Alexander, and getting mistaken for himself was his plan all along.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Lara Croft snags Jack Sparrow to help her evade the cops, led by JARVIS from ''Film/IronMan'' and James Bond.
** JARVIS, nothing. That is one pissed off [[AKnightsTale Geoffrey Chaucer... and I still don't see how he didn't notice Count Addemar following around his suspects.]]
* HiddenWire: Elise wears one at the end.
* InspectorJavert: Inspector Acheson. He wants to continue pursuing Alexander Pearce, even after [[spoiler: Pearce leaves a check to cover the 'seven hundred and forty four million' he owed in back taxes. But Chief Inspector Jones declares the operation closed. "What is it (Pearce) really did? He stole money from a gangster. A dead gangster... I can't say I don't wish him well."]]
* JustTrainWrong: Where to begin? In less then five minutes they mange to screw it up four times. First of all the designation of the train Elise boards in Gare de Lyon is Ter, which stands for Transport express régional in French and is thus a regional, not an international train. Second of all, in the first aerial shot of the train we see an Italian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_500 Frecciarossa ETR 500]] which is used only on Italian High Speed lines and therefor would have no business departing Gare de Lyon in France.Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
* KnightTemplar: Inspector Acheson
* LondonGangster: In his introductory scene Shaw is presented as [[TheMafiya Russian]], but he's actually an English gangster who prefers to employ Russians.
* LoveableRogue: [[spoiler: Frank/Alexander]]
* MistakenIdentity: The main plot revolves around Frank being mistaken for Alexander Pearce.
* MsFanservice: The movie makes the most of Jolie's beauty.
* OperaGloves: Elise wears opera-length gloves as accessories to her retro-glamour outfits throughout most of the movie.
* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), and he cuts the feds a check to get them off his back. Of course, he still has several ''billion'' dollars for his efforts]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler: And she quickly find out that choosing one of them over the other would have sucked a lot for BOTH Alexander and Frank, since they are actually the same person.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Inspector Jones, as a foil to Inspector Acheson.
* RunningGag: Frank keeps speaking Spanish when he means to use Italian. It gets {{lampshaded}} at one point.
* SceneryPorn: The cinematographer(s) took full advantage of the Venice setting. (Several of the interiors are gorgeous too.)
* ShoutOut: Paul Bettany mentioning [[AKnightsTale Lichtenstein]] can't be a coincidence.
* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Elise]]
* WithMyHandsTied: Frank manages to escape from handcuffs twice, albeit once with assistance from Elise.
* XanatosRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the whole scheme would have come apart.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shaw does this to one of his mooks. [[spoiler: By strangling him with a measuring tape, in the middle of being fitted for a new suit.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[BigBrotherIsWatching Big brother is watching her and she looks good]].]]A 2010 movie with AngelinaJolie and JohnnyDepp in the main roles.
The film opens with Elise (Jolie), a beautiful Londoner in Paris, taking in her breakfast at her usual bistro while a van filled with policemen observe her. There she receives a mysterious letter telling her to take a specific train and introduce herself to a random man of the same height and build as one Alexander Pearce. Though the police, led by the extremely driven Inspector John Acheson (Paul Bettany) attempt to follow, she loses them en route to the ''Gare de Lyon'' and boards her intended train. There she meets math teacher Frank Tupelo (Depp,) a tourist from Wisconsin who is fond of spy novels and nervous around his new acquaintance. He thinks he's met the girl of his dreams, and what turns into light flirtation on the train holds the potential for so much more as Elise invites him back to her hotel in Venice.
Just when Frank begins to think his luck couldn't get any better, a slew of foreign thugs descend upon him. Suddenly, he finds himself hunted by mobsters, crooked cops, and Scotland Yard's finance division as everyone seems eager to track down criminal mastermind Alexander Pearce. And unfortunately for Frank, their current suspect is him.
This movie is also (in)famous for earning a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Musical or Comedy category... despite not actually being a musical or comedy. Or, according to most critics, good.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionSurvivor: Frank, [[spoiler: except he's not]].
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Elise was a cop at one point, assigned to go undercover to nab Alexander Pearce. Unfortunately, she fell in love with him. In the words of Inspector Acheson, she could never decide whether she was with Pearce or the cops.]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Inevitably, when a movie's top-billers are two of the best-looking folks in the biz.
* BigBad: The gangster boss, Reginald Shaw.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Much of the early scenes are shown from the point of view of cops watching Elise through hidden cameras and such.
** They are pretty creepy about it, too. Zooming in her ass, speculating whether or not she's wearing panties. [[spoiler: This early scene gets retroactively creepier later in the movie, as it turns out she's one of their coworkers.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: [[spoiler: Alexander]]
* TheCaper
* CassandraTruth: When [[spoiler:Frank]] confesses to being Alexander Pearce. Zig-zagged in that he expected only some of his listeners to believe him.
* DaChief: Chief Inspector Jones, played by TimothyDalton of all people
* DeadpanSnarker: Inspector Jones
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Colonnello Lombardi, the Italian cop Frank first goes to when he realizes there are men out to kill him.]]
* FakeAmerican: Fake British actually as Angelina plays a British agent and [[spoiler: Johnny Depp plays Frank/Alexander an American pretending to be British who's actually pretending to be American.]]
* ForeignRemake: Of the French film ''Anthony Zimmer.''
* GambitPileup: Everyone conspiring against each other, and poor Frank is caught in the middle of it. [[spoiler: Except that he's the one who got everyone else caught in this mess: Frank IS Alexander, and getting mistaken for himself was his plan all along.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Lara Croft snags Jack Sparrow to help her evade the cops, led by JARVIS from ''Film/IronMan'' and James Bond.
** JARVIS, nothing. That is one pissed off [[AKnightsTale Geoffrey Chaucer... and I still don't see how he didn't notice Count Addemar following around his suspects.]]
* HiddenWire: Elise wears one at the end.
* InspectorJavert: Inspector Acheson. He wants to continue pursuing Alexander Pearce, even after [[spoiler: Pearce leaves a check to cover the 'seven hundred and forty four million' he owed in back taxes. But Chief Inspector Jones declares the operation closed. "What is it (Pearce) really did? He stole money from a gangster. A dead gangster... I can't say I don't wish him well."]]
* JustTrainWrong: Where to begin? In less then five minutes they mange to screw it up four times. First of all the designation of the train Elise boards in Gare de Lyon is Ter, which stands for Transport express régional in French and is thus a regional, not an international train. Second of all, in the first aerial shot of the train we see an Italian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_500 Frecciarossa ETR 500]] which is used only on Italian High Speed lines and therefor would have no business departing Gare de Lyon in France.Third of all for the second aerial shot, the rolling stock switches mysteriously to another Italian train (that had no business being in France) this time the tilting [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETR_600 ETR 600 Pendolino]] also known as Frecciargento. As the shot changes, and we see the train enter a tunnel, we get the fourth mistake as the train switches back to a Frecciarossa.
* KnightTemplar: Inspector Acheson
* LondonGangster: In his introductory scene Shaw is presented as [[TheMafiya Russian]], but he's actually an English gangster who prefers to employ Russians.
* LoveableRogue: [[spoiler: Frank/Alexander]]
* MistakenIdentity: The main plot revolves around Frank being mistaken for Alexander Pearce.
* MsFanservice: The movie makes the most of Jolie's beauty.
* OperaGloves: Elise wears opera-length gloves as accessories to her retro-glamour outfits throughout most of the movie.
* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: By the end, Pearce gets the girl, his enemies are dead (killed by cops, no less), and he cuts the feds a check to get them off his back. Of course, he still has several ''billion'' dollars for his efforts]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Torn between her love for Alexander and her love for Frank, Elise finally decide that she loves both of them. [[spoiler: And she quickly find out that choosing one of them over the other would have sucked a lot for BOTH Alexander and Frank, since they are actually the same person.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Inspector Jones, as a foil to Inspector Acheson.
* RunningGag: Frank keeps speaking Spanish when he means to use Italian. It gets {{lampshaded}} at one point.
* SceneryPorn: The cinematographer(s) took full advantage of the Venice setting. (Several of the interiors are gorgeous too.)
* ShoutOut: Paul Bettany mentioning [[AKnightsTale Lichtenstein]] can't be a coincidence.
* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler: Elise]]
* WithMyHandsTied: Frank manages to escape from handcuffs twice, albeit once with assistance from Elise.
* XanatosRoulette: Alexander's plan. [[spoiler:He told his wife to get on a particular train and pick out someone of his height and build at random. His entire plan depends on her picking one guy in particular who, it turns out, is actually him. If that first guy she had locked eyes with hadn't been with someone, the whole scheme would have come apart.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shaw does this to one of his mooks. [[spoiler: By strangling him with a measuring tape, in the middle of being fitted for a new suit.]]
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