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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Syriana (2005)

Cast: George Clooney (Bob Barnes), Kayvan Novak (Arash), Amr Waked (Mohammed Sheik Agiza), Christopher Plummer (Dean Whiting)
For complete info, see IMDb's Syriana page.

The cast is amazing. I'm not sure I understand why this got the awards it did, since the screenplay is a bit dull in points, but George Clooney definitely did a great job. Of course, the best way to win a best actor award is to gain or lose a ton of weight and hope no one else did it that year.

The story of Syriana is very interesting, though parts of it definitely seem to drag on. I think it could have been an amazing 1 hr. 40 min. movie, but at over 2 hours it was a bit long.

I still recommend the movie, since it was very interesting and some of the lines in it about government profitting from corruption (thriving on it, actually) are priceless. This is a movie I highly recommend if you're interested in the way our government deals with oil trade and other foreign matters. If you're not at all interested in that, you should probably skip this in spite of the amazing cast.

Grade: B-

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