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Article: Not so great, Scott.(FILM)(Ridley Scott's Body of Lies)(Movie review)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 3, 2008
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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 good (usually when they were deliberately fantastical, as with Matt Damon's Jason Bourne cycle), ...