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Overall Rank: |
1592 |
Avg. Rating: |
2.60/4 |
# of Ratings: |
75 |
Genres: |
Drama, Thriller |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
English |
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Director: |
Stephen Gaghan |
Actors: |
Matt Damon
George Clooney
Amanda Peet
Kayvan Novak
Amr Waked
Christopher Plummer |
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The political war of oil, the US and the rest of the world disputes its importance of keeping things under wraps.
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Chris aka Tarkin 01/06/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
Syriana has the actors and it has a story relevant to the time, but unlike other recent ensemble pieces, I never felt this connected with me. The pacing is the biggest detraction - it moves so slow it never caught my attention. |
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Alex 07/04/2007 (1 of 3 found this helpful) |
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0.5/4 |
An over blown, slow moving junk of a movie. I admitt that Clooney does a good job, but this can't save this boring, pointless (could have had a reason though), and ugly picture. Some may like it, but make sure you have a back-up plan. |
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11/10/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Boring poltical non thriller |
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Syriana too slow for its own good. It prods along so slowly that it failed to gain any interest from me. A film does not need to be short or ultra fast paced but this film is very poorly done. It does not use its slow pacing to develop characters or make an interesting storyline, or even a storyline that can be followed easily enough, you basically have to take notes in this film. Not because its too fast but because of the slow reveals and scenes on scenes that fail to hold intention or purpose. I like thrillers, and political thrillers very much but this one fails to be interesting at all.
Oscar Win Best Supporting Actor George Clooney 1/5- Clooney takes the method of acting where you just make a tired face throughout the whole film and do nothing to change it in anyways. There are ... |
Rating of
1.5/4 |
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05/23/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Syriana |
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Syriana is an interesting film that has trouble delivering the goods. The Acting is good with George Clooney giving a solid performance even though he's not in the movie long. Matt Damon and Jeffrey Wright also give good performances. It is Well directed also. The problem with this movie is that the writing is bad, making the story way to complicated and confusing. Another problem is that there are way to many stories to follow. To Bad, if done right, this one could have been great. |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
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09/26/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Good film. |
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Haven't read the script, but I can tell I liked this film. I'm neutral politically speaking, so I'm nobody's side. I think that the movie portrays in a very accurate way what's going on today in mideast, and how that influence in europe and the occidental world. I think the movie is not a masterpiece, it lacks some kind of touch that I can't put in words, but it's indeed a great one. George Clooney's best. |
Rating of
3/4 |
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09/26/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Someday we'll see this was just a stepping stone |
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Stephen Gaghan wrote this script. He is so brilliant that I couldn't even read the script and get everything straight. Not because it was poorly written either. It was amazing.
However, watching this movie, I felt it was too simple and didn't concentrate on the different characters enough.
I get the same feeling from Stephen Gaghan's movies that I did while watching early Charlie Kaufman movies like Being John Malkovich or Adaptation. I wanted to like them, but I knew he could do better than that. Then Charlie Kaufman gave us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Synecdoche, NY is looking to be another great flick.
I am hoping that Stephen Gaghan's masterpiece will occur in the next 2-4 years so we can realize the scope of his brilliance. |
Rating of
2.5/4 |
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