PAUL Haggis filters an angry antiwar film through the eyes of a career military man in this devastating drama, as a retired sergeant (Tommy Lee Jones) searches for his son, who's gone AWOL after returning from Iraq. Jones's work is haunted and powerful -- and unfortunately marred by Haggis's overbearing script. HHH1/2 WHEN a bomb goes off in a compound for American workers in Riyadh, a team of FBI investigators (including Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner) heads to the crime scene, where they are supervised by a Saudi policeman (great work from Ashraf Barhom). The Kingdom cracks down the middle into Syriana-style realpolitick -- everybody's got interests and angles -- and a supercharged Rambo rescue fantasy. Both halves are good in their own ways, with off-the-cuff dialogue from Matthew Mi...
The script is way too cool to spell things out. [Michael Mann]'s opaque screenplay rivals last year's Syriana with its level of plot confusion. Syriana indicted Big Oil by suggesting that the lines of trans-national money and power were too tangled to trace. Mann is making a similar point about contemporary crime networks, evoking a shifting, enigmatic diffusion of violence and corruption through Port au Prince, Havana, Geneva and the jungles of Colombia. With the terse, sparse dialogue, we don't get to know the characters well enough to understand what's at stake. The same goes for the action sequences. They're shot with Mann's trademark proficiency, augmented with the you-are-there feel of HD, but they're strangely uninvolving. We never even get to the core of the relationship betwe...
The series' tone has become unbearably self-referential and smug, unable to shake that "We're [George Clooney] and [Brad Pitt], and you're not" vibe. As the film ends, Pitt cracks to Clooney, "Next time, try not to gain weight between jobs," a reference to the pounds Clooney packed on for his Syriana role. "Settle down and have a couple of kids," Clooney quips back, referring to the ever-expanding Jolie-Pitt family. Ocean's Thirteen is gorgeously lit, nicely shot, dripping with modern-baroque trimmings and good-looking stars. While there is a lot to look at, there is nothing to draw us in. There is no sense of danger, despite [Al Pacino]'s trademark ranting and his reptilian looks. The scripters can't even be bothered to construct a decent heist. No one expects gritty realism here, but ...
For Season 5, [David Simon] secured the rights to use the Sun's name. The main journalist is played by Tom McCarthy, who had small parts in Syriana and Flags of Our Fathers but is perhaps best known as the writer-director of 2003's The Station Agent. What this season is about is just how far you can go on a lie," Simon says in a promo that has been airing on HBO. The lie Simon is referring to is what deteriorating cities tell themselves -- everything is going to be all right. At Slate.com, one of the bastions of Wire fandom and analysis, Jacob Weinberg wrote: "No other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political and economic life an American city with scope, observational precision and moral vision of great literature.
... releases and box office smashes as Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth, Fast Food Nation, Luna and...
The truth of the matter is, it's really hard to find a good script," [George Clooney] says. "You'd think it might be easy but it isn't. This is a great script. You read the script and think: This one's got to get made. And they're not easy to get made in this day and age. "[Tony Gilroy] (Gilroy) won't really want to talk about things that he showed me before he started, but there are actual law documents -- there were actual interoffice memos of companies that were literally saying from one department to the other, 'If you recall this, it's going to cost $300 million dollars, or if you don't, it'll kill 300 people a year and the class action suit will cost $300,000, and you'll save this many people's lives." "The love scene with [Tilda Swinton]," he replied. "It was so, so good, reall...
... colours in pertinent films such as Syriana (an examination of how American government intelli...
[Oprah Winfrey]'s audience is my audience's parents," the 29-year-old rapper said. "So, I could care less about Oprah or her show. "She edited out a lot of my comments while keeping her own in," he said. "Of course, it's her show, but we were doing a show on racial discrimination, and she gave me a hard time as a rapper, when I came on there as an actor." The rapper, who's signed to close pal Eminem's Shady/Aftermath label under Interscope Records, said he recently attended Proof's wake with Eminem. Proof, a friend of Eminem's, was shot and killed earlier this month during a dispute in a Detroit nightclub.
...Motion picture screenplay, Syriana, by Stephen Gaghan, based on the book by Robert Ba...
I kind of just react to whatever's out there, and this was definitely the best script that was out there," [Matt Damon] said of The Bourne Identity. "It was this kind of movie that I hadn't really pictured myself being offered but had pictured myself doing, had hoped that I'd be able to do. "He's got a particular skill set as an actor that makes him perfect for this," [Paul Greengrass] said. "He's a brilliant actor of duality. He's done it on a number of films back from the beginning. [Ripley]'s a classic example. Because he's got that open face, and yet it's capable of dark actions. It makes him very, very morally ambiguous. Damon said he senses he's done with the Bourne films, but he might be interested if Greengrass were to return to make another. Greengrass and Damon hope to colla...
... a plum role in the 2005 ensemble drama Syriana. Last fall, he starred as a crook who infiltrates ...
This one is the keeper. Star Patrick Swayze, fresh off the success of Dirty Dancing, was beloved by sufficient numbers of ladies. So he opted to ingratiate himself with male viewers as Dalton, a professional "cooler" entrusted by the managers of various drinking establishments with the task of pacifying potential violent drunks. And when they can't be pacified -- as Dalton acknowledges with the classic line: "Be nice, until it's time not to be nice" -- he takes care of business with his fists. [Tsotsi] translates as "thug" in the street lingo of South Africa's townships. But Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) doesn't have a problem with the moniker. Raised in the ghettos of Johannesburg, he makes a living as a mugger with his loyal gang. But after the deliberate murder of a victim on a subwa...
... Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction. 4. Syriana. 5. Annapolis. 6. Eight Below. 7. Ultraviolet. ...
[Michael Clayton] is sent to put the manic-depressive [Arthur Edens] back on his meds and get the case on track. But Edens, seriously miffed at spending a good chunk of his life "defending a cancer," goes missing in possession of an inflammatory memo that could destroy his client's case. And while Clayton tries to figure out a middle ground between the contradictory tasks of helping his friend and protecting his company, Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton), the ambitious in-house counsel at U/North, devises a more sinister way of salvaging her company's case.
... the disillusioned CIA agent he played in Syriana. Clooney seems to be selling the possibility of re...
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