A lesser director could have taken this story of espionage and twisted it into a convoluted and indecipherable Gordian knot. A lesser director might have chosen to ramp up the action, sacrificing intelligence for entertainment. Ferris is also trying to build a productive working relationship with the head of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam Mark Strong, a relationship that is made even more tenuous by Hoffman's double-dealings and hidden agendas.There are so many ways that Scott could have screwed this up. Ed plays the situation like a kid playing a video game, and has the resources to change the rules anytime he feels like it, dispensing his orders from his office, from his backyard, from his daughter's soccer game, for Pete's sake! This, of course, infuriates Ferris to no end, because he is the one who is in the trenches, chasing the bad guys, dodging bullets, ducking explosions, and procuring the badly-needed intelligence that Hoffman needs. He gets his orders from Ed Hoffman Crowe, a man for whom results are the only satisfactory outcome, delivered with a fair amount of arrogance and a cocky Southern drawl. DiCaprio plays CIA operative Roger Ferris, who is trying to flush out a terrorist leader named Al-Saleem in Jordan. But oh, how that's all changed now.It's not easy to describe the plot of Body of Lies without giving too much away. Of course, at the time, Crowe was a complete unknown and DiCaprio was a 21-year-old newcomer with only a couple of notable titles under his belt. It's ironic to think that the last time these two actors shared the screen was back in 1995, with the clichéd-but-entertaining oater The Quick and the Dead. Ĭhutzpah.But it does help if you have the help of two of the biggest actors in Hollywood at the moment, those being Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe who has worked with Scott on two previous films, Gladiator and A Good Year.
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The gentle and understated romance element provided by Golshifteh Farahani as 'Aisha' provided a nice contrast to the testosterone-soaked male world in which this drama plays out.The movie confirms what I've known for a long time: Ridley Scott apparently can do no wrong. The latter has come a long way since I first saw him in the BBC production of Jane Austen's 'Emma'. Russell Crowe is basically a secondary character, eclipsed almost completely by DiCaprio and Mark Strong. Leonardo DiCaprio has really grown up and cast off his annoying persona, which was so prominent in just about all his movies until 'Blood Diamond' came along.
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Others of a more moderate and even-handed disposition will find much to like and appreciate.All of this, rather profound, stuff is wrapped up in a gritty Ridley Scott production and direction, that keeps your full attention for its full 2+ hours. Both, Islamophobes and Islamophiles-or those on the extremes of any aspect of the political spectrum-will probably find ample elements to dislike about this film. Just like KoH, it's all about even-handedness and realizing that 1 every side in a conflict has a point of view, which, to itself, is perfectly valid and 2 every side has people you'd probably like and some you really wouldn't, 3 the way to peace lies with understanding 1 and 2 and not with having just one point of view, no matter how righteous it may appear. Thing is, you can't leave politics out of a political movie and so what do you do? Well, here's a newsflash for the poli-preachers on all sides: it's possible to have it all, and just watch Ridley Scott do it. Lies' is very much a Ridley Scott movie and this translates into the film's politics as well.
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