The Tourist
Jamie Dornan is on top form in this twisting, turning, always-keeping-youguessing thriller from Harry and Jack Williams, the writers behind The Missing.
Things get off to a pacy start in an opening sequence that sees Dornan in a battered old car being chased through the Australian outback by a huge truck that seems intent on driving him off the road.
Just when you think he’s managed to evade his pursuer, the truck looms scarily up to broadside Dornan’s car, which is thrown into the air.
He awakes in hospital with no memory of who he is or why he is in Australia. Local small town probationary police officer Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald) comes to interview him, with little success, and leaves her card. She starts to investigate, against the wishes of her odious, controlling fiancé, but finding out anything about Dornan’s man with no name proves difficult.
It seems, though, that someone knows him – he finds a note for an appointment at a diner, he goes, meets waitress Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) for (what he thinks is) the first time and then there is an explosion. It appears someone also wants him dead.
Added into the mix are an LSDaddicted millionaire Greek businessman, a corrupt homicide cop and a mysterious Russian woman from Dornan’s past. All the narrative strands are expertly woven together by the Williams brothers and there some nice touches of dry humour.