YMMV / The Tourist

• Adaptation Displacement: The film is, as mentioned under "foreign remake" below, a remake of Anthony Zimmer, though not many who have seen this film have heard of it.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Frank is a widower, tourist from Wisconsin who went on a trip in Europe to forget how his life sucks. Would Alexander play stupid when there's only the fourth wall watching? Besides, what is the proof that Frank is Alexander; that he knows the code for the safe? He could have found it somewhere, it might be a number series an economist like Alexander was fond of, and Frank managed to guess it. After all, he's a math teacher. Alexander is possibly the man with a cell phone they intercept at the end, watching his wife Elise fall in love with someone else.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Apparently, before he became director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pearce was a Gentleman Thief who was sleeping with Angelina Jolie.^note (Okay, the MCU character's surname is "Pierce" instead of "Pearce", but still...)
• Magnificent Bastard: Alexander Pearce is a renowned thief who stole from both criminals and authorities alike. When undercover Interpol agent Elise was sent to spy on him, his charms manages to get Elise to fall in love with him and the two consummate a romantic relationship. After stealing 2.3 billion dollars from British crime lord Reginald Shaw, Alexander splits from Elise, sending her letters on where to find him, while also instructing her to find someone similar to Alexander's height and build to deviate Shaw's men and the Interpol pool away from him. After getting Shaw and his men killed while hiring a tourist to distract Interpol, Alexander Pearce reveals himself to Elise before escaping with her, also returning the money he stole from the authorities.
• Moral Event Horizon: Shaw, who in an anecdote related to Frank, mentions that he once killed every man his wife had ever slept with before she met him. Then, when he realized how many there were, he killed her too. He also thinks nothing of disposing of his own men ... in front of the help, no less.
• Squick: Yeah, Elise is beautiful but do the cops have to be creepy about it? Especially considering that they are her coworkers.