Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on August 29th, 2008 at 09:19am

BODY OF LIES poster

Ridley Scott’s movie for 2008 (seriously this guy is on one movie a year right now) Body of Lies looks so pedestrian to me, so middle of the road. So average.

There’s no spark to it. Nothing that makes me go… “Yeah, I gotta see that”. I’m not getting the vibe I got with American Gangster, I’m just not feeling like this is a must see movie.

And for a film with Scott… with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe that is so depressing. Why does this movie look so uninteresting?

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Remind yourself of the trailer here…

I even like the plot and we know William Monahan (The Departed) is one hell of a writer but this feels like Scott trying to do Michael Mann (look at the poster, it even looks like Heat) and that is not a good thing at all.

The movie opens on October 10th (U.K.) and November 21st (U.S.). At this point, the names are the ONLY thing getting me in that theatre.

source - imp

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Categories: Body-of-Lies, Leonardo-DiCaprio, Movie News, Posters, Ridley-Scott, Russell-Crowe, William-Monahan

2 Comments »

  1. The poster looks very generic. Let’s hope the actual film does have something more of a spark.

    Comment by James Clayton | August 29, 2008

  2. Totally agree on the shrugged shoulders interest in this one… Doesn’t seem to add anything to the genre, just treads on the toes of what’s gone before. Still, I should probably wait to see it before putting a nail in the coffin. If only they’d cracked on with Nottingham this year; that looked like it was worth a look…

    Comment by Mark Clark | August 30, 2008

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