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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

If there is such a thing like a film to smart to enjoy 'Duplicity' written and directed by Tony Gilroy would certainly qualify. It is not that scriptwriter Gilroy misses smart stories in his CV - he wrote the 'Bourne' series (based on Robert Ludlum's novels), 'Proof of Life' and 'Devil's Advocate'each of them smart. The problem with Duplicity is that he did not find a better director than Tony Gilroy to direct a script which has many surprises, hidden angles, flashbacks and twists but too few of them are being turn into moments of good cinema suspense or emotions.Duplicity is the story of two ex-spies (one CIA - Julia Roberts, one MI-6 Clive Owen) who go private and plan a big scam by getting hired by two competing moguls in the shampoo industry. In a world where eavesdropping is the rule, where nobody trusts anybody, where every word hides a lie which hides an even bigger lie being a couple of spies and lovers means first of all trusting each other? Is trust possible? this is the permanent question and the answer is so many times no that when time comes to answer yes the answer is simply not credible.The two lead actors create chemistry and they cannot act bad, but chemistry and good acting is not enough, especially as both Roberts and Owen look or are made to look in this film a little bit beyond the peaks of their respective sex-appeals. This may be intentional, as even sexy spies start getting old at some point, and this is a credible situation of life, but simply does not fit the profile of an action movie. On the other side the twists and layers and flashbacks in time are so many and so often that at some point in time I lost interest in watching the action, and believe me, this seldom happens to me in an action movie. Duplicity simply tries to hard to be smart, and the style of director Gilroy does not make justice to the scriptwriter Gilroy.

"Duplicity" is a film about spies, although not about secret agents in the sense that devotees of Ian Fleming or John Le Carré would understand the term. Admittedly, the two main characters, Ray Koval and Claire Stenwick, start off working for MI6 and the CIA respectively, but they soon abandon their careers for the much more lucrative world of industrial espionage.The plot centres upon the rivalry between two multinational companies, Burkett & Randle and Equikrom. Ray works for Equikrom; Claire works for Burkett & Randle in their corporate security department. Or at least she ostensibly does. In reality, she is a corporate spy employed by Equikrom to steal Burkett & Randle's trade secrets, especially details of a highly secret new product they are developing, and Ray is her handler.Or is the true position even more complex than that? As its title might suggest, "Duplicity" is the sort of film where the audience are, for virtually its whole length, left in the dark as to what the true position is, as to who is trying to double-cross whom and who can trust whom. It gradually emerges that Ray and Claire are lovers, who are conspiring together to cheat both companies and sell the secret to the highest bidder. Or are they…….? As is common in films of this nature, twist follows twist; there is a neat twist at the end whereby Dick Garsik, the corrupt, amoral Chief Executive of Equikrom is hoist with his own petard.There is, however, to be no similar come-uppance for the equally amoral Ray and Claire. The film is sometimes described as a romantic comedy, but the emphasis is less on romance than on the characters' complicated scheming. It is essentially a disguised heist movie, with the heist movie's typically relaxed attitude towards those who illegally or dishonestly enrich themselves at others' expense. Theft and fraud are not wrong, provided that the thieves or fraudsters are cool and attractive, that their crimes are carried out with daring, style and panache and that their victims are guilty of some crime, if only of the crime of not being cool and attractive themselves. Julia Roberts, who stars as Claire here, also starred in the "Ocean's" franchise, which was based around a similarly dubious code of ethics. Other recent examples include "Entrapment" and the remake of "The Italian Job"; there appears to be a belief among Hollywood scriptwriters that women as attractive as Roberts, Catherine Zeta Jones and Charlize Theron are, or should be, exempt from the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Steal".This is a slick, glossy piece of film-making, but it suffers from two defects. We are unable to identify with its hero and heroine for two reasons. The first is that their lack of moral scruples makes them inherently unsympathetic. The second was encapsulated by Roger Ebert in his review of the film. Writing of the frequent plot twists, he said "'Duplicity' is entertaining, but the complexities of its plot keep it from being really involving: When nothing is as it seems, why care?" It is certainly not the only film to suffer from these defects- indeed, an increasing number of films in recent years, the "Ocean's" films being good examples, have also been made in the same style, weaving labyrinthine and less than plausible plots around amoral and less than admirable characters. Watching "Duplicity" I frequently found myself asking "Why care?" 5/10

There have been a lot of really good movies about spies over the years, people risking their lives to protect their country/king/scientific secrets/etc. These can be very entertaining. I've never given much thought about corporate spies. These are (real) people who take jobs in businesses and steal their secrets (formulas, product ideas) and sell them to the competition. What a waste of a life that must be-constantly stabbing your employers, co-workers, and friends in the back for money. Not very noble, and not very entertaining.Duplicity takes 2 of these parasites and places them in a "comedy-romance". Forst of all, there was only one funny joke in the entire movie, and it had nothing to do with either star. Second, the 2 leads meet, fall into bed together immediately, and spend the entire movie not trusting each other while sleeping together and professing their "love".This is an ugly movie about nasty, dirty people. I really like Julia Roberts, but her character here was awful. I actually spent most of the movie hoping the "plan" they were working on would fail. The fact that no one in the movie was likable made the entire story hard to watch. No one was happy, no one was nice, no one was worth me spending 2 hours of my life with.The flashbacks and time jumps, while distracting and hard to follow at first, made sense by the end. They were necessary to keep the viewer from noticing that the story was very simple. 2 con artists get jobs as trusted experts at competing companies. They secretly work together to steal one company's formula with the help of the other company, only to screw THAT company in the end, too. What an awful group of people.

I never thought i will write my first review for such a disappointing movie. Slated as a con movie this movie cons its viewers in the end. For those who want to watch a Con Movie, this is my sincere request ...please DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME on this piece of nonsense. You can imagine that after rating almost 300 movies for this site i am writing my first review just to avoid people from further wasting their time in high hopes and getting nothing. And Flashbacks which were employed to add spice to the movie were in fact a great torture too...Moreover, the trepid and intransigent plot of the movie inundated with flashbacks invoked me to inveigh and to launch an invective but whatever i am writing here is just an iota of the degree how i felt about this movie