Review – Syriana

This comes across as the international intrigue version of Crash. Sure, assassination plots, high dollar mergers and the like are inherently more interesting than Los Angelinos squabbling abut race relations. But that doesn’t make this a good movie. I was particularly disappointed by the lack of complexity in the plot. Other reviewers led me to believe that the story involved so many twists and turns that it was sometimes difficult to tell what was going on. There was some wheeling and dealing and double-crossing and the like, but at no point was it hard to follow, rarely even hard to predict. Overall this isn’t a bad movie. It just wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Mildly amusing