Nicole Kidman is a U.N. interpreter, who is fluent in many languages. One of them is Ku, spoken in Matobo, a fictional African country run by a despot who, she accidentally overhears one day, is an assassination target. Watching this convoluted thriller is much like language translation itself, said Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal. If you think too much, you
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