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2005

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Starring	George Clooney, Amanda Peet, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright
Director	Stephen Gaghan
Genres	Drama, Thriller

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Syriana

Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a longtime CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son (Max Minghella). But his last secret mission, getting rid of Prince Nasir (Alexander Siddig), turns out to be more complicated than he imagined, placing him in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy involving government corruption, oil, and international terrorism. Matt Damon plays Bryan Woodman, an energy man whose ethics become vulnerable after the horrific loss of one of his sons. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., lawyers Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright) and Dean Whiting (Christopher Plummer) also must choose between the government's special interests and what's best for the world (as well as their own special interests).

Starring	George Clooney, Amanda Peet, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig
Director	Stephen Gaghan
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 2 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 8 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 2 hrs 2 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 8 mins
Certificate	DVD LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres	Drama, Thriller
Language	DVD: English, Audio Description Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English HD DVD: English
Subtitles	DVD: Arabic, English, Hebrew, Icelandic LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released	Production year: 2005 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 08 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 10 Jul 2006 Blu-ray: 04 Dec 2006
Watch now	£2.49

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- This fighting-mad film isn't just hot, its' incendiary. And no one gets off the hook. You see it with the exhilarating feeling that a movie can make a difference
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- - Rolling Stone
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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  Complex but intriguing - a political film for today
  
  Syriana follows the multi-plot narrative that films such as Traffic and Crash did so well. Four stories are told, each interdependent on the other. One is about... read more »
  
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  Let Me Think . .
  
  The opening five minutes give you quite a fair idea of the type of movie you are about to see. One with bombs, and Sheiks, and spies, and politics. But mostly ... read more »
  
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  Convoluted - it should have been better
  
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  Well it promised a lot and could have been a good comment on the petro-chemical industry but I really have no idea what went on in the movie - it is something ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Jan 2012 at 14:17
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  Boring and slow
  
  This film is really dull and does not flow at all. Trying hard to be arty. We turned it off.
  
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