Body of Lies – 2 Buckets
October 9, 2008 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Reviews
Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies talks like an intimate character-study set amidst contemporary U.S.-Middle East geopolitics, walks like a loud and explosive action-film, and ends up mastering neither genre nor a combination thereof. It feels like the talent involved couldn’t decide whether they wanted to makeSyriana, Rambo, or The Kingdom and what resulted was a vat of emptiness. Body [...]