Movie Star Blog

Syriana didn't score too well at the box office.

This is fundementally flawed because of the mindnumbingly boring subject matter. Oil politics and corruption law. Zzzz. It probably would have made a better documentary(if you could pin down any of these stories or similar ones to make the connections about). Matt Damon’s character is a complete conundrum to me. I just don’t understand most of the choices they made with him, especially the stuff with his family(actually, the oddest choice of that is the only one I understood, the thing with his kid). Clooney’s storyline was probably the best, because it dealt with intrigue, torture, set ups and deals, and shady spy action in Lebanon as well as being fucked in the ass by the CIA and having clandestine meetings with threats being thrown around between the waitress dropping things off. The rest, I don’t know. It’s a terribly important subject matter, but much like Crash it bit off more than it could chew in the space of 2 hours. Maybe an ongoing HBO series you could have covered it all, but you only scratch the surface in 2 hours and bore the audience while you do it.