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Syriana (2005)
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Writer–director Stephen Gaghan has big game in his sights: a rapacious oil-industry president (Cooper), a covert American agent intervening in foreign affairs (Clooney), a corporate-coddled attorney smoothing over a pending merger (Wright). But what this ultraserious, ultralefty Syriana needs most—and lacks—is a human heart. Any kind of concession to dramatic principles of suspense would have been nice too, or, barring that, a simple definition of that blasted title. Evidently, such matters of thematic coherence, so well explored by Gaghan in Traffic, were not as important to him this time around, and it's a mistake.Author: JR
Time Out New York website
Cast & crew
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Producer: Jennifer Fox, Michael Nozik, Georgia Kacandes
Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, Jeffrey Wright, Mazhar Munir, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Alexander Siddig full cast
Duration: 128 mins
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