Body of Lies Critic Reviews
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It's a genre film - the action is fierce and nonstop - with a brooding undercurrent of unease that aims for the complexities of John le Carre.Read the full review
Body of Lies is a James Bond plot inserted into today's headlines. The film wants to be persuasive in its expertise about modern spycraft, terrorism, the CIA and Middle East politics. But its hero is a lone ranger who operates in three countries, single-handedly creates a fictitious terrorist organization, and survives explosions, gunfights, and brutal torture.Read the full review
Most of this just seems, you know, so three years ago, so "Bourne" again.Read the full review
Always crisp and watchable. But as the film's episodic story gradually reveals itself, it ends up too unconvincing and conventional to consistently hold our attention.Read the full review
Body of Lies neither panders nor condescends. It involves current events and has a political viewpoint, but it overplays neither.Read the full review
The result is commendably non-West-centric, but no less sentimentally conceived.Read the full review
Lacks, a story that makes it feel personal.Read the full review
DiCaprio and Crowe, two supposedly high-wattage movie stars, are remarkably dull to watch together--perhaps because so many of their scenes together take place over the phone.Read the full review
It may not be as much fun as old spy movies starring Cary Grant or more recent entertainments such as "Spy Game," directed by Ridley's brother Tony, but it feels all too accurate.Read the full review
As it is, the movie is a hodgepodge of borrowings and half-cooked ideas, flung together into a feverishly edited jet-setting exercise in purposeless intensity.Read the full review
