… James Bond on a leash …
James Bond tamed — that’s Duplicity. Bond-style music, master spies, international glossy views and fantasy luxury gorgeously photographed, and Clive Owen’s looks almost fall in line with the Sean Connery successors though there’s a touch of the spaniel about him. But the intrigue, which anyhow lacks the scope and wild imagination of a Bond film, plays second fiddle to the saccharine and unbelievable love story whose sex scenes and dialogue are platitudes: Roberts to Owen: “I know what you are and I love you anyway.” Owen to Roberts: “I’ve been faithful.” James Bond domesticated.