Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1.5/4
Boring poltical non thriller
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 11/10/2009
Syriana too slow for its own good. It prods along so slowly that it failed to gain any interest from me. A film does not need to be short or ultra fast paced but this film is very poorly done. It does not use its slow pacing to develop characters or make an interesting storyline, or even a storyline that can be followed easily enough, you basically have to take notes in this film. Not because its too fast but because of the slow reveals and scenes on scenes that fail to hold intention or purpose. I like thrillers, and political thrillers very much but this one fails to be interesting at all.
Oscar Win Best Supporting Actor George Clooney 1/5- Clooney takes the method of acting where you just make a tired face throughout the whole film and do nothing to change it in anyways. There are …
Rating of
2.5/4
Someday we'll see this was just a stepping stone
Allison - wrote on 09/26/2007
Stephen Gaghan wrote this script. He is so brilliant that I couldn't even read the script and get everything straight. Not because it was poorly written either. It was amazing.
However, watching this movie, I felt it was too simple and didn't concentrate on the different characters enough.
I get the same feeling from Stephen Gaghan's movies that I did while watching early Charlie Kaufman movies like Being John Malkovich or Adaptation. I wanted to like them, but I knew he could do better than that. Then Charlie Kaufman gave us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Synecdoche, NY is looking to be another great flick.
I am hoping that Stephen Gaghan's masterpiece will occur in the next 2-4 years so we can realize the scope of his brilliance.
