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