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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: Oct 10, 2008
Country Of Origin: United States
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"Body of Lies" is based on "Washington Post" columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence. Although ostensibly his allies, Ferris questions how far he can really trust these men without putting his entire operation--and his life--on the line.
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Body of Lies is an unexceptional but exciting Middle-East thriller that is lifted by the potent screen teaming of DiCaprio and Crowe. Story 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 cat and mouse… 
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…
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