Not so great, Scott.(FILM)(Ridley Scott's Body of Lies)(Movie review)

National Review | November 3, 2008| | Copyright

NEVER let it be said that Hollywood doesn't respond to the free market. For several years after 9/11, and especially after the invasion of Iraq, the movie business busied itself making exactly the sort of films you'd expect from an industry where Sean Penn passes for a moderate. There were anti-war polemics, paranoid thrillers about conspiracies in high places, and gritty, "realistic" films about terrorism and American foreign policy in which the military-industrial complex usually ended up painted in darker hues than the terrorists themselves. Occasionally these movies were ...

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