Body Of Lies: It's an enormously competent spy action thriller with big stars
From the trailer, I feared this might just be Jason Bourne again. Ridley Scott's new action thriller about the war on terror is an unmistakably Hollywood product with big, bankable stars, but it feels commendably real. That's partly because, though based on a novel, it draws on ten years during which the writer, David Ignatius, covered the CIA and Middle Eastern politics for The Wall Street Journal. There's a richness of factual detail, and Scott is just the man to bring out the texture of terrorism. Thrilling: Mark Strong and Leonardo DiCaprio give solid performances in new Hollywood film Body Of Lies It's an intricately plotted picture which revels in the subterfuges of spying and counter-espionage. I especially enjoyed the nifty way terrorists in the desert can cloud the vision of American spy planes, and the way Western intelligence sets up a fake terrorist cell to confuse the enemy. The unacceptable face of U.S. foreign policy is portrayed unne...