Mr. Movie reviews: "Syrianna"

Well I am pretty liberal, and I just barely liked it. This is a very well written and amazingly well edited piece of work.  It just didn’t have the immediacy, the hysterical paranoia that Traffic had.

Traffic was almost a horror film, where drugs were this boogey man that was coming for us all.  And “Syrianna,” is about greed and how it’s dragging down particular people. You should take your ginkgo biloba before you see it, because you might forget that Matt Damon’s character is in grief, similar to the newly minted terrorist.

Trying to figure out what the CIA is trying to do is pointless. What they hope to accomplish with the mission they send a pudgy George Clooney back to Beirut for is vague. George and Mel Gibson apparently are in a private battle to see who can grow the most biblical beard.  I’m really rooting for George, but I have to admit Mel’s really onto a more authentic sand and pepper look. It may come down to matching eyebrows.

I recommend seeing this film in a theatre that doesn’t sell soda. I think everyone in the theatre I was in got up twice to take a piss. And of course cam back and said “what did I miss.”  Walk away for three minutes from this film and you probably won’t miss anything. See the whole film and you probably will feel you did miss something. This is more or less the point, multiple huge issues overlapping; do not evolve into cogent narratives.

This country used to be the straight shooters of the world, we traded on this.  Now the president spies on everyone, when NSA spying is used for insider trading will be put the lot of them in prison, take their money, and save social security?