A Hitchcockian comedy-thriller co-scripted by the German director of The Lives of Others, the American author of The Usual Suspects and the Englishman who wrote Gosford Park, all three of them Oscar-winners, seemed like something to look forward to. Especially for someone like myself who believes that no film set on a train or in Venice can be wholly bad. But this glossy affair, in which Angelina Jolie (British mystery woman) meets Johnny Depp (American maths teacher) on a train from Paris to Venice, then leads him on a merry dance around the canals of La Serenissima chased by Scotland Yard and international villains, nearly pulls off the trick.
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