Review: Body of Lies

Chick 2 says:

If 1+1+1=3, then in movie math Leonardo DiCaprio + Russell Crowe + Ridley Scott should = great film.  But Body of Lies just doesn’t quite add up.  It is well acted, at times intense, and there’s nothing wrong with the direction or the cinematography, but it is not packing a punch.  Crowe’s character is in charge of CIA Intelligence in the Middle East and DiCaprio plays his man on the ground in Jordan.  Crowe, who is generally watching the action unfold via satellite sitting inside Langley, only knows his bottom line in the goal to get intel and hopefully apprehend the world’s most wanted terrorists, while DiCaprio is in the middle of the fray and the culture witnessing first hand the personal collateral damage that is brought about on the way to the bottom line.  While I would now watch a movie about paint drying if Leo was in it, and I consider Crowe one of the best actors of our time, it has to be the script that falls short this time.  The movie seems long, the intrigue expected, and though there is the required near-death experience, there is no unexpected climax.  However, the fact that what takes place in this movie must happen every single day in that real world makes you ponder things for a quite a while after you leave the theater.  It does make an impression.

 

IF you don’t mind that 1+1+1= 2.5, THEN GO.

Posted on by wj11 in Reviews, The 2000s 95 Comments

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