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Body of Lies

Body of Lies unites two powerhouse performers Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe (emphasis on “house” here as Crowe put on about 50 pounds for the role). Crowe is Ed Hoffman a Langley CIA honcho who firmly believes in the U.S. Middle East mission and can vacillate all day on the need to win. DiCaprio plays Roger Ferris, Hoffman’s legs in the hot zones who spends most of the film healing new wounds from his latest mission inadvertently sabotaged by his boss because he trusts no one. Hoffman orchestrates these disasters from the stateside comfort of a big screen war room where satellite technology allows him a bird’s eye view of the caper going on half a world away and quarterbacks the action via cell phone hands free although surprisingly without the aid of blue tooth technology. Their biggest problem is that the bad guys are going even older school i.e. communicating without electronics making it impossible to track their activity. When a new chief fanatic starts randomly bombing western cities world wide help from the Jordanian locals is required and Jordan’s top cop warily lends Ferris a hand with one proviso – NO lies. As usual trouble arises when Hoffman makes a liar out of Ferris whose sympathies are being tested by his attraction to a beautiful Iranian medic. Ace performances and Ridley Scott’s direction of an intricate timely story from the 2007 novel of the same name about a no win situation make Body of Lies a winner.

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