Body of Lies (2008)
3/10
Almost Clever, But Not Quite
20 January 2010
Very hard to develop any attachment to any of the characters. Many of the characters just do not come anywhere near matching up to what one would reasonably expect from their types - especially the highly-intelligent and suspicious CIA spook who falls almost instantly for a girl he knows nothing about. The script simply fails to bring these characters to any point where I could emotionally connect with them, instead just allowing them to dangle along throughout the whole film. Due to this, I found it very hard to even think about entering the world as presented on the screen, it was simply too cluttered with lingering thoughts about what just happened, and why it didn't make any sense.

Aside from that, the quality of cinematography is decent enough, although I'm certainly no buff in this regards. Sum total: The few almost-clever twists along the way simply couldn't rise above the noise created by a poor script.
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