Body of Lies
CIA agent Roger Ferris devices a plan to capture terrorist Al-Saleem by luring him with a fake terrorist organization he created but this might cost him his life if it turns out wrong.
20 July 1979, Tangier, Morocco
25 August 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
April 14, 1979 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
December 2, 1981 in Jaffa, Israel
29 December 1976, Haifa, Israel
1 May 1946, New York City, New York, USA
7 April 1964, Wellington, New Zealand
18 January 1944, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1971, Bayonne, France
22 January 2001, Texas, USA
15 September 1966, Hastings, Minnesota, USA
March 24, 2011
Russell Crowe has finally realised he's just an ordinary fat guy now, and taken a role he can accurately portray.
November 10, 2008
Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on.
October 18, 2008
Yes, there are a couple of chase scenes, but Scott rarely shifts into high gear.
July 07, 2010
Body of Lies is an extremely well paced, tightly wound, and intensely violent thriller. There is no damnation or congratulations here. As Russell Crowe muses as the end: "No one is innocent"
January 16, 2013
A compelling, nail-biting spy thriller.
November 21, 2008
Perhaps Scott's ever-restless shooting style doesn't quite differentiate between the peaks and troughs of the narrative, yet it's still an engrossing account of the intersection between process and ethics.
November 10, 2008
Just because it's really dense and layered doesn't mean it's good.
August 15, 2011
It has none of the sweep of, say, Syriana, as if that mattered to the audience it's gunning for.
December 24, 2009
It doesn't help that those action scenes all blend together, relying overmuch on speeding convoys of big black SUVs and surveillance planes that can see you picking your nose from miles up.
October 18, 2008
DiCaprio's solid, though I wonder if a real CIA agent could get away with looking so earnest every second. Crowe has the right idea, in addition to all the fun: Just throw it away, throw it away and pretty soon you build yourself a clever characterization
February 21, 2010
...[Ridley] Scott's most entertaining and involving effort since 2001's Black Hawk Down.
November 10, 2008
A complicated movie about the war on terror with two terrific performances and a terrific director.
