Body of Lies

First time I noticed about Ridley Scott's film was 'Gladiator' about 10 years ago..._He has always been very consistent in my mind as a filmmaker, just take a look at his other masterpieces such as Kingdom of Heaven and American Gangster..._Well, what really i can say about his movie this time..?_Hmmm generally, for me it simply couldn't reach the same level as his previous works..._I think the mistake that killed it for me was my high expectations towards this movie..._I didn't said that this was a bad movie, because it was still entertaining and pounding our heart with a few tense explosion and shooting scenes...

Body of Lies has many good elements and it does not have particularly bad elements..._The problem is we have already seen a lot of movies which expose the same plot, the same controversies and very similar structures and characters...

1st: The Arabian terrorist whose decision and mission makes sense when we see it from his point of view..._2nd: The leader or high range officer of CIA or FBI who give the direction to his agent at foreign country from his complicated high technology room at somewhere around US..._3rd: The agent who has good intentions but questions some of the instruction from his boss..._And of course after watching those kind of stories so many times such as The Kingdom, Lions for Lambs, Rendition and Syriana, I am starting to get a little bit boring of it..!_Maybe if I didn't ever watch those kind of movies and Body of Lies is the 1st movie of that kind i ever watch, i'm gonna give it a great credit..!

Also, all the big exciting scenes are left at the beginning of the movie..._After a couple intense scenes, the movie slows down to become quite boring and repetitious (too much scenes of teleconversation between DiCaprio and Crowe maybe?)

The cast is 1 of a few positive point of Body of Lies..._Beside the director, Ridley Scott, the main factor that made me want to watch this movie because of the combination of DiCaprio and Russel Crowe..._DiCaprio recently always come out with a few heavy action flicks such as Blood Diamond and The Departed which for me was a great performance..._And this time, its good to see that he still maintain that reputation..._same also with Crowe who his reputation cannot be denied although his character in this movie was a little bit boring and not enough challenge for the actor of his class..._1 more positive thing was the visual camera which set up several amazing shots especially with overhead camera angles (satellite view) and beird eye view towards each cities involved in this film...

Overall, Body of Lies was an average movie, and I felt lucky to watch it in DVD instead of watching in cinema..._This is because for me, this movie is quite complicated, the plot is not easy to catch up and you definitely need a chance to pause the movie and thinking for a while..!_But the performances definitely make it worth your while, the surprise performance came from Mark Strong who plays the lead terrorist who DiCaprio must befriend, his performance was the one that stood out to me best..._1 thing i can say: GOOD PERFORMANCES FROM THE ACTORS BUT QUITE DISSAPOINTING THRILLER ALTHOUGH IT STILL WORTH IT TO WATCH..!

My Personal Rating:

6.5 out of 10