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(1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 28% Rotten Page   1   "'Body of Lies' ends up being a mostly chaotic movie featuring lead characters it's hard to care about."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker B+ "Body of Lies is certainly one of most well-crafted and intellectually engaging political thrillers to come along this year."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3/5 "Anchored by an amazing performance by Leonardo DiCaprio and little else, Body of Lies limps along for over two hours, never amounting to more than a decent, if derivative nailbiter."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C- "Lies is a turgid Middle Eastern thriller, firing blanks as an action submission and presenting a wet match to light the fire of political discourse."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C ""Body of Lies" is a cynical cinematic Kamikaze sortie where the goal is for the audience to disapprove of every smug American character and every super tricky Middle Easterner."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/10 "Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C+ "There always seems to be a gunfight, torture, or fireball explosion to keep you mindlessly entertained."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "So many like-minded films have beat it to the punch that there's nothing new to offer audiences. The talents of all involved have been wasted, and so has our time."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C+ "An unfocused, almost pointless spy thriller."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "After Ridley's less-than-stellar stretch including Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year and American Gangster, expectations are medium at best and Body of Lies does nothing to raise them."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A- "Easily the smartest film to date about the post-9/11 'war on terror.'"   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C "Curiously lightweight...escapes neither the slick histrionics of a typical studio blockbuster nor the clumsiness that afflicts movies with political messages."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A thriller that reveals the latest twists and turns in the war on terrorism."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "For those who care about there being more to a thriller than pointless car chases and over-edited fight sequences, Body of Lies offers a satisfying dose of truth."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "So much of Body of Lies lumbers along in a lazily predictable manner."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3.5/4 "A tight, first-rate espionage thriller that casts a bleak light on American involvement in the Middle East."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards C- "A stumbling block for myself as a big, fat American who doesn't understand all the nuances of Middle Eastern politics is that the movie was often hard to follow."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr C+ "...should seem ripped from today's headlines. Instead it plays like a typical cat and mouse spy movie with top notch production values and a tacked on romantic angle."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[C]lever and subtle and demands that you pay attention, and rewards you for doing so..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Doesn't tell its story clearly, and buries its most compelling aspects beneath action scenes and romantic subplots that detract from them."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "The movie has the fungible quality of the kind of book you buy for an airplane trip and toss as soon as you arrive."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "While action-adventure conventions take precedence over socio-political analysis, visceral kicks are in short supply, a situation that throws the film's tendencies toward stale misdirection and goofy melodrama into sharp relief."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Yet in spite of the movie's high-tech veneer and its top-billed stars, Body of Lies is depressingly inert."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "The film lacks the urgency and, ironically, the intelligence required for something along these lines to succeed."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski C "It's basically just an excuse for Leonardo DiCaprio to play Jason Bourne while Scott once again turns his technical expertise towards making Morocco look pretty."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 2.5/5 "A bewildering mishmash of double-crosses, cover-ups, and cliches, Monahan's treatment unfortunately undermines some terrific performances and a solid outing for director Ridley Scott."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Body of Lies is excessively intricate and extremely dull, the latest example of a filmmaker giving us a disjointed, overlong movie that’s unnecessarily confusing to follow."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 "Bloated and far-fetched, it's filled with two-and-half-hours of meandering meaninglessness."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "Bloated and far-fetched, it's filled with two-and-half-hours of meandering meaninglessness."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "Obnoxiously typical, and only its pointlessly convoluted series of double crosses in the middle even gives it the semblance of drama."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/4 "Perfectly workmanlike, unimpeachably prestige-y, achingly contemporary, and a near-complete failure as revelation"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw C+ Read review   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford  (1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 28% Rotten Page   1