The International

The IBBC, the International Bank of Buisness and Credit is one of the most powerful banks worldwide. And even though the buildings that are built of glass seem transparent, behind the glasses the very secret and illegal money buisnesses are taking place. Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) who works for Interpol is this close to uncover the trade with arms and the intervention into govermental activities but his college gets murdered what he can not prove and their informant, with whose help they´d have evidence for the illegal deals of the bank gets killed, too. Together with Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) a Manhattan assistant district attorney he keeps on trying to reveal the criminal activities. The further they go, the closer they come to the truth, the more people get killed, never to prove the connection between the murderes and the bank. At one point Salinger has to decide wether to give up or to leave the way within the constitutional state, because the law would never let him do what is necessary, and every government, every one who has a hight position anywhere is corrupt or gets blackmailed. So "the system" would always protect the bank.

I can warmly recommend this one to you, it´s about an idealistic man who won´t give up, gets satisfaction in the end but nothing changes. Very realistic and disillusional, thrilling and close to the characters, you can feel the tension the whole time through.