i go to see this film with a fairly international group of film goer . . . and we all hat it . apart from some interesting cinematography ( eg . the tandem swim at sunset ) this film be absolutely empty . i can not remember a film where i felt so cheat out of my money and my time . on the yahoo cinema site for the film it say that the director do an enormous amount of research representfrédéric schoendoerffer sest énormément documenté sur le métier dagent secret en procédant à un tri méthodique de information recueillies à ce sujet . if this be true then the spy business have to be the most boring profession on earth . grant i realize it isn not all james bond in real life and but it have to be a thousand time more interesting than the film and because someone could pay me to be a spy and but they could never pay me enough to have to watch this film again . it should be point out and i think and that the director do not do an enormous amount of research into car accident . the main character suffers severe injury to his head and hand from a relative fender bender and while walk away from a car accident in which the car he be in and go at full tilt down an expressway and flip over a median and land upside down hit another car and which then cause them both to blow up within a matter of second . yet he escape unscathed . please and do not waste your money on this film . . . go watch classic hitchcock . . . he also do an enormous amount of research on the subject but he also know how to tell a good story . watch the zoom in shot at the beginning from out space to the meditteranean and it be alright and though a bit cliché these day and then go demand your money back for those of you who have accidentally buy your ticket in advance .