Silvia Broome (Kidman) is an interpreter at the UN. She inadvertently overhears a plot to assassinate the leader of her African home country during an impending address to the UN. Tobin Keller (Penn) is the recently widowed US agent assigned to check her story out, and true to cliché he doesn’t believe her. As the address draws nearer a tense thriller develops: will Tobin overcome his grief and cynicism in time to believe Silvia?

Complicating things is Silvia’s own shady past in her African home’s violent turmoil and the need to tip-toe around diplomatic protocols.

This was actually filmed inside the UN and gives the film real authenticity and the tangled politics are portrayed well. Kidman does an excellent turn (doing ‘glacial beauty’ this time around) while Penn is suitably irritating but turning up trumps in the end.

A good clever twisty film that might even convince some that the UN, not war, is the best way to do things. And did I mention its got Nicole Kidman?