Crowe as Hoffman and DiCaprio as Ferris in "Body of Lies"
Body of Lies, directed by a masterful director Ridley Scott who brought to you his masterpieces "Alien" (1979), "Gladiator" (2000), "Black Hawk Down" (2001), "American Gangster" (2007) and more. This is a spy thriller film based on the novel of the same name by David Ignatius. The film begins with a bunch of anti-terrorist squad team prepare to engage the terrorist at the small apartment. Then the terrorists suicide by bombing themselves. The film cut to the scene where Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) a CIA operative in Iraq is getting the lead to a terrorist called Al Salim. Then the film introduce Ed Hoffman (Russel Crowe) Ferris's handler who trying to explain nowadays the CIA are hard to track down the terrorists, because they know the CIA has a great technology. So all the terrorist turn off their phones, shutting down their email, and using the old method of communicating face-to-face and others. By tracking the terrorist Al Salim, Ferris lost his friend in a car chase. Then Ferris went to Jordan and meet Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), head of the Jordanian General Intelligence Department. He told Ferris make sure he didn't lie to him. In order to find out who is Al Salim, Ferris meet a Jordanian Architect, Omar Sadiki. By using him as a bait, the CIA make a fake terrorist attack at Turkey so that Al Salim will try to find out who is the one who conduct the attack. Besides using Omar Sadiki as a bait, Ferris will soon find out he himself also will become a bait and he has to figure the way out in order to save himself. First of all, in my opinion this is really a great spy thriller film made by Ridley Scott. The story of this film is great, it contains a strong muslim element in it. Of course, it is a very sensitive topic but Ridley done a great job in making it balance between the topic and the film, and sometimes it makes you not to believe in CIA in some situation. The plot progression is almost perfect, only the first 30 minutes of the film which is I think is a little bit too fast. It makes the film a bit confusing because many thing happens at a lot of location. Besides that, Ridley done a great job by choosing a great actors who has a ability to act very well in every scene of the movie. Other than that, this film contains a bit action sequences which is very realictic and not too over the top. Ridley is a director who knows how to get a great shot and put it into a movie. I like the cinematography in this movie, Alexander Witt done a great job in lighting and others. Because of that, the movie looks cool, intense and has a unique style. Other than that, the composer Marc Streitenfeld also done a good job in composing the score in the movie. The score which he composed helped to support the film intensity and style. All I can say is this movie really deliver the thrills. Overall, "It is a great spy thriller film that can make you believe in everything the terrorist did nowadays. It's not perfect but it really delivers the thrills."
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