Who else would cast Russell Crowe as Uncle Sam and Leonardo DiCaprio as a pawn in his game? In Body of Lies, Scott laces the action with simmering drama heightened by his killer sense of mischief. Scott gets regularly gonged for letting style ride herd over substance, despite Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster and other potent proof to the contrary. Snobs have dissed the British director of Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator as a decorator tarred by his start in lowly commercials. Here’s a combustible spy thriller that wires Syriana to Three Days of the Condor, heats it with Patriot Act politics, and then lets Ridley Scott light the fuse.
Whoppers have become the lingua franca of our culture, useful in presidential campaigns, Wall Street bailouts, even diet books.
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