Given the dreadful state of the U.S. economy -- which is turning out to be the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930's -- hard-hit moviegoers would be forgiven for not feeling any sympathy towards greedy corporations or, more importantly, the greedy CEO's who run them.

So chalk it up to bad timing for the release of "Duplicity," in which Julia Roberts and Clive Owen play conniving business operatives (and secret lovers) on opposite sides of an all-out corporate war. But timing is only part of the problem with this would-be romantic caper, which is too convoluted to be romantic, too confusing to be an effective caper and too long to be entertaining.

"I don't think so," she said, adding that it was easier thanks to reuniting with "Closer" co-star Clive Owen.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- In "The International," Clive Owen plays a desperate Interpol agent who spends his every waking moment trying to shut down a secretive international bank reaching its fingers into world politics - and he doesn't have time for a martini break. But does that make the actor, who was once floated as a possible 007, the anti-Bond?

Not quite, Clive told Access Hollywood at the film's junket in Beverly Hills on Thursday - but his character is certainly a different kind of action hero.