Dunst, Mortensen and Isaac are the unsympathetic trio at the heart of this Mediterranean period drama. It's a competent, but curiously old fashioned piece perhaps better suited to the black and white era of movie making. But even there, it fails to ratchet up the suspense enough to be worthy of a comparison with, for example, Hitchcock.That sounds like I have a bit of a downer on The Two Faces of January, but you'd be wrong. It's good Sunday afternoon fare and Greece looks wonderfully dusty and I could almost feel the heat radiating from it.
Verdict: Beautiful scenery and period detail lift an ordinary thriller plot.
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