it fascinate to note how review of this film and many others seem to fall along political line . some who comment on this film and who like it and happily saw a pro un message in pollack effort . ( many of these appear to be non american . ) american have tend to judge the film for it story telling quality which be sadly lack . ) unfortunately for pollack and his masterpiece work three day of the condor be a terribly hard act for anyone to follow and especially for it director who be compete with himself in this genre . the interpreter do not fare well in this comparison . what be go on in this film . sean penn be a federal agent with an improbable and bizarre personal life ( his dancer spouse be a runaway wife who die in a car wreck with her lover . ) there there be all sort of halting and non sequitur dialogue between penn and kidman that seem to hint at a romantic development but go nowhere . the plot turn be all contrive and some of the action be incomprehensible why do not the agent get off the bus when told to . why do they keep say they do not want to expose their cover until they be blow to bit . it be one of many inexplicably odd plot device that be counterintuitive . much of this film be so contradictory it nearly give me a headache . movie be fiction and sleight of hand and fantasy but they have to be believable within their own context . condor be brilliant in that it be believable within itself . robert redford be a thoroughly believable cia analyst with a background that allow him to elude assassination while develop a believable relationship with faye dunaway whom he kidnap at random to aid his escape . i will simply fast forward to the the interpreter outrageously unrealistic end which i will not reveal . i will simply ask viewer to compare it to the delicious twist at the end of condor in which redford be give fatherly advice by his own would be assassin after the killer be instead order to murder the man who want redford dead . condor have a hard and realistic edge to it that be miss in interpreter . a for the political message of interpreter regard the un and it seem one could see the film a argue for and against the trouble plague international body . a a political message and pollack film seem as confuse a it plot .