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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Oct 10, 2008
Running Time: 126 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English and Arabic, subtitled English
Roger Ferris is the best man U.S. Intelligence has on the ground, in places where human life is worth no more than the information it can get you. In operations that take him around the globe, Ferris’ next breath often depends on the voice at the other end of a secure phone line--CIA veteran Ed Hoffman. Strategizing from a laptop in the suburbs, Hoffman is on the trail of an emerging terrorist leader who has orchestrated a campaign of bombings while eluding the most sophisticated intelligence network in the world. To lure the terrorist out into the open, Ferris will have to penetrate his murky world, but the closer Ferris gets to the target, the more he discovers that trust is both a dangerous commodity and the only one that will get him out alive.
Ridley Scott makes some of the very best movies out there. Or at least he does eventually. For some unknown reason, lately he has been making incredibly long films, which for the most part have to be edited down. In some cases,
"Russell Crowe, Leo D, and Ridley Scott keep it moving; though you don't always know exactly what's going on, you're always relatively entertained. "
In the hands of lesser talent, Body of Lies probably would have been a jumbled mess. But Russ Crowe, Leo D, and Rid Scott keep it moving; and though you don't
PETER TRAVERS -
October 16, 2008
Deception. Disinformation. Deploying truth as a bridge to nowhere. Whoppers have become the lingua franca of our culture, useful in presidential campaigns, Wall Street bailouts, even diet books. And if you believe Body of Lies, U.S. intelligence wouldn't work without them. Here's a combustible spy thriller that wires Syriana to Three Days of the Condor, heats it with Patriot Act politics, and then lets Ridley Scott light the fuse. Snobs have dissed the British director
Body of Lies is an unexceptional but exciting Middle-East thriller that is lifted by the potent screen teaming of Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
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Although its Mideast trappings have become terribly familiar in any number of recent movies from Syriana to The Kingdom to director Ridley Scott's own Black Hawk Down, William Monaghan's (The Departed) tight script still has pertinent things to say about the lies and deceptions inherent in our covert operations in the region. Cloaked in a