![]() Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the CIA's man in the border regions of Iraq, under the specific control of Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), a desk bound operative in Langley, Virginia. If nowhere is safe, everywhere is lethal. ![]() He captures the crowded, dirt dusted, rubble wrecked streets of the Middle East with an artist's eye. Both sides commit crimes against humanity, even though there is no conflict, unless you count the vaguely meaningless War On Terror, or the ghastly legacy of the Bush administration in the ancient lands. If you thought Syriana difficult to follow, Body Of Lies will have your brain for breakfast. As thrillers become more complex in their execution, political thrillers, especially those involving MI6, or the CIA, are virtually opaque now.
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