Old-fashioned star power from Julia Roberts and Clive Owen illuminates this snappy espionage caper, though it's never quite as clever as it should be. Former CIA agent Claire Stenwick (Roberts) and ex-MI6 spook Ray Koval (Owen) are a couple with a history, as their first encounter at the start of the movie proves. Years later, they are working in counter-intelligence for rival multinationals - ostensibly to help protect their latest products, but actually to scam their feuding employers (played gleefully by Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti) - and they're in love. Or at least they would be if they could trust one another. There are double-crosses, glamorous international locations and flirtatious dialogue aplenty, and the film spins an entertaining web that offers a jazzy modern take on 1960s caper yarns (much like the Ocean's Eleven franchise). Unfortunately, the elaborate plotting by writer/director Tony Gilroy (the Bourne trilogy, Michael Clayton) rather crowds out the fizz the story needs, though the potent chemistry of the stars at least means the time passes pleasantly.

Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and allow them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together. They find themselves on opposing sides as corporate spies; however, as they each try to outdo the other, neither one can decide how far to trust the other in this high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.