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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Stephen Gaghan
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Actors:
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Robert Foxworth,
Nicholas Art,
Steven Hinkle,
Kayvan Novak,
Amr Waked,
Daisy Tormé,
George Clooney,
Christopher Plummer,
Jeffrey Wright,
Chris Cooper,
Nicky Henson,
Matt Damon,
Amanda Peet,
Peter Gerety,
Richard Lintern
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Duration:
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128 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)103.5
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Plot Summary:
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Syriana is a thriller of corruption and power coordinated to the fuel effort that tells four follow stories: the CIA envoy Bob Barnes with great experience in Halfway East that falls in disgrace after an hapless mission dealing missiles in Lebanese Republic; the investigation of the attorney Bennett Time off related to the coalesce of two American grease companies, Connex and Killen; the traumatic association of the liveliness analyst Bryan Woodman with the son of a powerful emir of Emirate; and the social drama of the Pakistani immigrant proletarian Wasim Khan that is fired past the oil comp... any.
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The first hour is awful, but it gets better
This is one of the most complicated films I've seen, and I was lost, completely lost, for the first hour or so. But this is surely intentional (the producers actually gave sheets with character bios to the critics when they sent their film out to be reviewed, so they were well aware that it was going to be complicated). To be honest, you will spend the first hour not knowing who is who, who is working for whom, etc. I've read Roger Ebert's review who says that this does not matter, as our confusion is the same as the confusion among the people in the film, ie they have no idea who is 'good' or 'bad' (or are they all 'bad'). I don't buy that: I think that it would be a better film had the first hour been a tad clearer. In the end, I almost never got t...
Syriana
Kenneth TuranSyriana is a film of paradoxes, contradictions and complications. It's a political thriller that thrives on misdirection, on hiding information just as it hides glamorous George Clooney behind a rumpled exterior and a full beard. Even its title is a puzzler: The meaning is critical, but no one on screen so much as says the word let alone explains it.
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, Syriana is a fearless and ambitious piece of work, made with equal parts passion and calculation, an unapologetically entertaining major studio release with compelling real-world relevance, a film that takes numerous risks and thrives on them all. An Oscar winner for writing Traffic, Gaghan is not shy about using traditional Hollywood ingredients such as dramatically s...
Difficult to understand
I borrowed this film as a result of all the hype. However, I found it difficult to understand, the dialogue was mumbled and some of the subtitles seemed to be missing. We are politically aware and can well believe the corruptions portrayed in this are true. However, films should entertain as well as educate and there was very little joy in this.
Too confusing for us to be bothered watching all the way through.
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