As handy with a gun as with a brilliant strategy, he's a glutton for punishment and sympathetic to the Middle Eastern culture. Scott focuses on his polish this time around, making Lies a pretty picture with pretty stars, forgetting this genre is. There s nothing bone-rattling about this presentation of paranoia, instead the film takes a paint-by-numbers approach to wartime maneuvering and geopolitical happenings. Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an ace field operative, whose fluent Arabic and bushy beard enable him to pass as a native. Serviceable is a great way to describe Body of Lies. Body of Lies Blu-ray Review I think that Body of Lies will have a lot of legs when the first 10 years of new millennium movies are examined and critiqued. Hoffman (Russell Crowe in a bristling grey hairpiece that looks better acquainted with Harpic than hair oil) is a patriot from the Deep South, a ruthless, xenophobic bully who works from his cell phone as he drives the kids to school.
B ased on a novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, Ridley Scott's latest is one of those espionage thrillers that skips around the world with captions flashed up to tell us we're in 'Manchester, England' (spectacular explosion at a terrorist bomb factory), 'Amsterdam, Holland' (spectacular explosion in crowded market), 'Langley, Virginia' (base of Ed Hoffman, controller of the CIA's Middle East activities) and, 'Samara, Iraq', 'Amman, Jordan' and 'Dubai, Persian Gulf' (the three principal places Hoffman's chief agent, Roger Ferris, flits between). Ridley Scott's Body of Lies follows the increasingly complex machinations of CIA agent Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who begins the film as a field agent in the Middle East attempting to.