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Article: This dirty, double-crossing world Ridley Scott's new spy thriller has three performances that lift it out of the ordinary; and memories of war are painfully revealed in a new animated film
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 23, 2008
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If ever you had doubts about the motivations and quality of US
intelligence staff, Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies
will confirm your worst suspicions. Crowe, as CIA veteran Ed
Hoffman, is ambitious, self-serving, profanely articulate and
morally corrupt to his plump fingertips.
Worst of all, despite his patina of cynical experience, he is
relentlessly ineffective. He plucks intelligence sources before they
are ripe, refuses to share useful information and hatches little
plots that crash and burn before their time. Working alongside him,
with growing resentment, is Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), a