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A 2009 conspiracy thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan to New York and to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as the bank will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war.
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* [[Always Murder]]: Salinger is convinced of this when his partner has a heart attack after meeting a contect. {{spoiler|He's right, of course.}}
* [[Arms Dealer]]
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* [[Career Killer]]: An assassin, and a...
* [[Cold Sniper]]
* [[Contract
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: All of the IBBC.
* [[Daddy's Little Villain]]: The [[Big Bad]] keeps his young son around for a teleconference as they play a game of Go.
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* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|Wexler}}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: This film could entirely plausibly be [[Shoot'Em Up|Smith]]'s origin story, explaining his hatred of [[Arms Dealer|arms dealers]].
** When did [[
* [[Hidden Wire]]
* [[How Dare You Die
* [[Instant Death Bullet]]: gorily averted on several occasions. One character bleeds out messily from a neck wound, one takes a long time to die from a stomach wound, and all the professional killers in the film employ [[Make Sure He's Dead]] headshots.
* [[Jurisdiction Friction]]: Mostly averted, despite all the local police forces involved. Most of the friction is with the higher-ups.
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* [[Spy Speak]]: Subverted when the hitman and his handler meet at an art gallery and have a stilted conversation about the painting they're looking at - turns out they already know each other, and they were just making conversation.
* [[Stairwell Chase]]
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: Salinger and the Consultant escaping the Guggenheim after the latter becomes aware of the [[Contract
* [[Vigilante Man]]: {{spoiler|tipping off [[The Mafia]] that the IBBC shot their old patriarch, and then attempting to do the same with the Syrians.}}
* [[Villainous Demotivator]]: Wexley only helps Salinger because he knows he has't got long to live.
* [[War for Fun
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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The IBBC engages in this quite a bit.
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