Syriana (2005)

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6.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Stephen Gaghan

Starring (View all)

Kayvan Novak
Arash

George Clooney
Bob Barnes

Amr Waked
Mohammed Sheik Agiza

Christopher Plummer
Dean Whiting

Jeffrey Wright
Bennett Holiday

Chris Cooper
Jimmy Pope

Robert Foxworth
Tommy Barton

Nicky Henson
Sydney Hewitt

Written by

Stephen Gaghan
(written by)

Robert Baer

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A very good movie

11 years, 8 months ago at Aug 31 22:04

johanlefourbe

2 votes

I have noticed that this movie doesn't get much love here on Listal and on IMDB but, personally, I thought it was really good. First of all, it was the official coronation of Georges Clooney who finally got his academy award and I think he really deserved the damned thing but I think that the rest of the cast was really good too (Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, Matt Damon, Amand... read more

too Political and too Pretentious to Enjoy.

9 years, 6 months ago at Nov 4 7:07

OsamaExKing

1 vote

It's a political movie that handle a large portion of U.S government policy overseas, it handle politics surrounding oil companies and terrorism in the middle east, it also tries to show that the U.S government is controlling the entire region, removing and installing whoever they want at all time, and it's based on a non-fiction book called "See No Evil" by Robert Baer. now i haven't read the boo... read more

Players and Schemes

16 years, 2 months ago at Feb 19 16:39

nataliegoes

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I'm thankful I watched the movie, and didn't read the book. There are a lot of players and schemes going on, and I'm sure I couldn't have kept track of it in the book. In a way this could be considered a gangster film, even if some of the players were well respected governments. But somehow it was able to make nearly all of the characters multifaceted, and complicated, and not exactly "good" or... read more

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Description: A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate 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. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist gro ... (more)

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