A good movie

I already saw this movie (in fact, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released) but, since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. Back in those days and, in fact, still right now, Leonardo DiCaprio was and is one of the most interesting actors at work and I wasn't really surprised to see him making a movie at some point with the great Ridley Scott. To complete this awesome combination, you had Russell Crowe so this flick definitely had some potential. Well, first of all, as usual with Ridley Scott, the directing was fine and there were a couple of really solid action scenes. Furthermore, DiCaprio and Crowe delivered some decent performances and I thought they were both fairly convincing. Still, even though it was pretty good and certainly entertaining, I can't say the whole thing really blew me away after all though. Indeed, like most of the movies directed by Scott, the visuals were fine but the story was rather shallow after all. I mean, the plot kept me interested but there was definitely something missing though. The main issue was that Roger Ferris was doing his best to work with the locals but, each time around, his boss Ed Hoffman would ruin all his hard work and this gimmick was repeated time and time again. It was also a poor idea to have the main character getting involved with an Arabian local girl. I mean, everything else about the main character was really convincing, except this part which was obviously added to humanize this guy but I think it would have been more efficient to only show him as a puppet at the mercy of his superiors. Still, I thought it was well made, I enjoyed it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Ridley Scott's work.