What I knew going in:
Don Cheadle (Ocean's 11,12,13) and Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) in a middle eastern spy flick directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Day after Tomorrow).
Hype:
Meh. I'm into spy films but I'd been hearing this one had Oscar buzz which would normally make it a Meh-. Add in the director from a crappy Sci-Fi disaster fim, who co-wrote the script, and you have a recipe for Overhyped Boredom Sushi.
Opening Thoughts:
Nice Mandelbrots during the opening credits. Music's pretty good. Wow. A car bomb opening. . .how. . .original. . .
Bottom Line:
Go. Rent. This. Now. Despite all of the things it had going against it, not the least of which was a decent competitor in Body of Lies, Cheadle's character and Nachmanoff's Script turn in a real nailbiter with one hell of an ending. I'm not convinced that Cheadle deserves Oscar buzz for the role, nonetheless his character is instantly likable yet hard to figure out which side he's really on. Heaps of good plot twists help this one stay interesting all of the way through. This gets the Q's GOLDEN GAUNTLET STAMP OF AWESOME (tm). In addition, nobody saw this movie in the theater (Domestic Gross of 23 million), which means that after you see it you'll have something to watch and recommend to your buddies who will either a) think you are a film genius or b) think you got lucky renting and are claiming to be a film genius.
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