gugan94 Body of lies the title itself tells you the movie is more about lies and it will be dealing around with the lies. How the lies will affect the person and his surrounding. The people in the higher position should tell lots of lies to convince everyone. This movie has remarkable performances from the lead actors. Leonarda as usual he has delivered a great performance. The movie has a lot of facts and they have researched more about the terrorist groups and fabricated properly. Ridley Scott has done a great job in coming with this script and delivering. The screenplay is a bit slow and in the end you will forget about the negatives. If you like dark genre or terrorist related movies this is a must watch movie for those audiences.

generationofswine Crowe got second billing and they gave the limelight to DiCaprio instead...that's a great idea. that means that, as usual, DiCaprio is going to shine doing his "this is how you become a different person" thing and Crowe is going to actually act and not just try to hog the limelight.The result is a tense and very well acted film.It should have been a Masterpiece but...it was released in 2008 and America wanted pure escapism then, not tense spy thrillers that reflect the reality of two long endless wars...and it was released a little too close to The Good Shepard.In fact, it felt a lot like the Good Shepard set in the modern era.It was the Good Shepard with more action.It was The Good Shepard with better acting, but only just.So, if it waited another 2 years, we would have had a great film in a time when we were slowly starting to relax a little again.If it waited 4 years, The Good Shepard would have been a distant memory and the shady CIA boss character would have seemed fresher.Don't misunderstand, Crowe actually acts again and DiCaprio shines as usual, you will totally enjoy this movie.The flaws are not its own, but rather a result of bad timing, pure and simple.It should have been more, but the zietgiest wasn't there yet.

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) Let me count the ways I hated it.Racist. USA the good guys catching the bad guys forever and ever amen.Leonard Di Caprio playing Ferris throws the credibility metre on high alert. Why on earth would he think his Iranian gf would not be a target for whatever enemy.Hard to track all those enemies wearing "towels" as per the CIA running all these operations from a bunker somewhere USA, it must look like a video game.I skipped a lot of scenes.The racism was rampant all through it. Crude, rude and hateful.Russell Crowe as the big cheese mouthed his hate and disconnect while dealing with his small children, kinda priceless watching that.All in all a waste of time, all the scenes looked like a movie set in the back of beyond, falling down in pieces with poverty everywhere. Except for Dubai.And script? Was done better in many other movies before it. They're all the same, it depends on the writers. And these failed.2 out of 10

Finfrosk86 I thought this was going to be a water tight, entertaining thriller. But I was not that entertained. It is well made, the camera work, acting, action, that's all good. The problem is that it didn't engage me very much, and it was.. kind of boring. I wouldn't normally score a movie as low as I have here, but when a thriller isn't thrilling, well that is pretty much a fail. It is too long. Parts of it are pretty exciting, but when you start thinking that you hope it's over soon, that's just not good.I did expect it to be somewhat different than it turned out to be, but had it been really good, it wouldn't have mattered. Here it did. It's got good actors, it looks good, has some truly entertaining parts, but all in all, you'll forget it pretty fast. And unless you're a total nut about the subject matter, you might find yourself planning your next meal during it.