Both films feature lots of shots of Langley suits monitoring Middle East developments on the ground by means of diose powerful, omnipresent eyes in the sky. Both feature frenetic desert chases; both feature a sequence in which a major character is taken prisoner by terrorists and tortured; and, most notably, both feature a scene in which an American lectures a Middle Easterner on the industrialized world's view of his homeland. Remember Matt Damon telling the prince, "We think 100 years ago you were living in tents in the desert chopping each others' heads off, and that's exacdy where you're going to be in another hundred"? Virtually the same sentiment is echoed in this film. That's just too close for comfort. A been-there-done-that-ness pervades [Ridley Scott]'s latest, and the film's ...
Too bad they took so long, because It's a pretty good one. [Leonardo DiCaprio] tries to smoke a terrorist leader out of hiding by creating a fictional rival cell, engrossing us with savvy deceptions, money trails and Web scams that feel perilously plausible. Such a shame we must simultaneously endure DiCaprio's tacked-on romance with an Iranian doctor, a courtship far less compelling than his increasingly anxious maneuvers around Mark Strong's menacing Jordanian intelligence official. [Russell Crowe]'s stranded-stuffing his face on the sidelines, drawling his way through Departed scribe [William Monahan]'s delightful profanities, cutting through ' murky machinations with acid satire, all but begging for a movie of movie of his own.
Body of Lies (R) HH 1/2
In "Body of Lies," Ridley Scott's fascinating and flawed spy thriller about a soulless CIA technocrat (Russell Crowe) pulling the chains of field agents in the Middle East, Leonardo DiCaprio furnishes the soul. For spymaster Ed Hoffman (Crowe) in Langley, informants are live bait to catch a slippery fish. For his man in Amman, Roger Ferris (DiCaprio), they are trusted allies in the war against Al Qaeda. One is a technocrat who trusts his surveillance tools, the other a humanist who trusts people.
The following DVDs will be released Tuesday: Body of Lies" (Warners, $28.98) -- **1/2 -- A sloppy, only modestly diverting spy thriller featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
As a Mephistophelean CIA honcho pulling strings behind the scenes in Ridley Scott's , Russell Crowe is a porcine joy.
As a Mephistophelean CIA honcho pulling strings behind the scenes in Ridley Scott's , Russell Crowe is a porcine joy.
As a Mephistophelean CIA honcho pulling strings behind the scenes in Ridley Scott's , Russell Crowe is a porcine joy.
As a Mephistophelean CIA honcho pulling strings behind the scenes in Ridley Scott's , Russell Crowe is a porcine joy.
As a Mephistophelean CIA honcho pulling strings behind the scenes in Ridley Scott's , Russell Crowe is a porcine joy.
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