Moving espionage thriller from Stephen Gaghan with suspense , thrills , intriguing events and great performance . Nail-biting and exciting movie dealing with a spy Bob Barnes (George Clooney) who falls in distress when some weapons are missing , he's on the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency but is eventually assigned by Division Chief (Jayne Atkinson) to a dangerous mission , then things go wrong when he's taken prisoner by Hezbollah . While the heir to an Emirate Prince Nasir Al-Subaai (Alexander Siddig) gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract . But then the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat resulting in fateful consquences . Meanwhile, executive Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon) , an energy analyst, after a family tragic becomes associated with the Emir , largely due to his essential business skills . Meantime , the super-powerful CIA uses relentlessly technological-gizmo-surveillance satellites and modern surveillance systems for people spying and hound terrorists , and getting nasty purports . It's not how you play the game ... It's how the Game Plays you. It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.
Story's core is thought-provoking and script is dense with information and drama in which everything is connected . A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it and in which unfortunate people become simple pawns in the goings-on among international powers that play a complex chess game . The ultra-brisk editing , various twisted stories hard to follow and rapid scenes movement leave little time to consider some inadequacies . Regarding peculiar relationships between top-of-the-range spies and other international forces that control the world energy . This is an espionage thriller from writer/director Stephan Gaghan and George Clooney as producer , and both of them giving awesome efforts in the important results . Including a known , notorious cast with eight Oscar winners : Chris Cooper, George Clooney, William Hurt', Viola Davis, Will McCormack, Christopher Plummer, Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy . Engaging and thoughtful thriller concerning the spy-world on Middle East and other countries , unemployment youngsters who join islamic fundamentalist cells and anything else . Interesting and brooding story by director Stephan Gaghan himself based on the book "See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer. Main and support cast are frankly good. George Clooney and Matt Damon sustain interest enough in this tale of world power , corruption , betrayal , sacrifice and terrorism . Adding the use of geopolitical messages to add weight to a subplot . George Clooney is good as tough , out of favor operative and displaying an enjoyable performance as the elderly and regretted CIA agent, his role is based on the real life exploits of career CIA operative Bob Baer. Along with a large support cast , such as : Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, Jayne Atkinson, Tom McCarthy, William Hurt , Jamey Sheridan , Amanda Peet , Tim Blake Lelson , David Clennon , Viola Davis , Max Minghella , among others .
The film packs adequate , evocative cinematography by Robert Elswit and rousing musical score by Alexandre Desplat . The motion picture was well realized by Stephen Gaghan. He has written two screenplays where Harrison Ford was offered a role : Robert Wakefield in Traffic (2000) (which went to Michael Douglas) and Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005) (which George Clooney won the Oscar). He's a prestigious writer , such as : Chaos, The Alamo , Rules of Engagement , Dolittle , Traffic , who has directed a few films , such as : Abandon , Gold , White city , Dolittle and Syriana. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average.
Story's core is thought-provoking and script is dense with information and drama in which everything is connected . A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it and in which unfortunate people become simple pawns in the goings-on among international powers that play a complex chess game . The ultra-brisk editing , various twisted stories hard to follow and rapid scenes movement leave little time to consider some inadequacies . Regarding peculiar relationships between top-of-the-range spies and other international forces that control the world energy . This is an espionage thriller from writer/director Stephan Gaghan and George Clooney as producer , and both of them giving awesome efforts in the important results . Including a known , notorious cast with eight Oscar winners : Chris Cooper, George Clooney, William Hurt', Viola Davis, Will McCormack, Christopher Plummer, Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy . Engaging and thoughtful thriller concerning the spy-world on Middle East and other countries , unemployment youngsters who join islamic fundamentalist cells and anything else . Interesting and brooding story by director Stephan Gaghan himself based on the book "See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer. Main and support cast are frankly good. George Clooney and Matt Damon sustain interest enough in this tale of world power , corruption , betrayal , sacrifice and terrorism . Adding the use of geopolitical messages to add weight to a subplot . George Clooney is good as tough , out of favor operative and displaying an enjoyable performance as the elderly and regretted CIA agent, his role is based on the real life exploits of career CIA operative Bob Baer. Along with a large support cast , such as : Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, Jayne Atkinson, Tom McCarthy, William Hurt , Jamey Sheridan , Amanda Peet , Tim Blake Lelson , David Clennon , Viola Davis , Max Minghella , among others .
The film packs adequate , evocative cinematography by Robert Elswit and rousing musical score by Alexandre Desplat . The motion picture was well realized by Stephen Gaghan. He has written two screenplays where Harrison Ford was offered a role : Robert Wakefield in Traffic (2000) (which went to Michael Douglas) and Bob Barnes in Syriana (2005) (which George Clooney won the Oscar). He's a prestigious writer , such as : Chaos, The Alamo , Rules of Engagement , Dolittle , Traffic , who has directed a few films , such as : Abandon , Gold , White city , Dolittle and Syriana. Rating : 7/10 . Better than average.