I know that the talk about this movie was “whoa – George gained 30 pounds,” and “wow – they took on the fight for oil in the persian gulf” and “what a convoluted script.”
I agree with that last one wholeheartedly.
From the writer of “Traffic” (a movie which I liked) comes “Syriana”, a meadering, confusing, slightly boring movie starring George Clooney. Some of the storylines were interesting – specifically, Matt Damon’s, George’s, and the two Islamic kids, but others could have been completely cut – Christopher Plummer and Chris Cooper to name two. Then this movie wouldn’t have been so confusing and all over the place.
2 fingernails out of five.