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Syriana (Widescreen Edition)
starring: Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright
directed by: Stephen Gaghan

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569807723
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 20, 2006
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 3167
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 2005

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Product Description:
Big oil means big money. Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast and ensnares industrialists princes spies politicos oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly deceptive web of move and countermove. This lightning-paced whip-smart action thriller grips your mind and nerves with an intensity that doesn't let go for an instant.Running Time: 128 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 012569807723 Manufacturer No: 80772

Amazon.com:
Syriana is an oil-based soap opera set against the world of global oil cartels. It is to the oil industry as Traffic was to the drug trade (no surprise, since writer/director Stephen Gaghan wrote the screenplay to Traffic): a sprawling attempt to portray the vast political, business, social, and personal implications of a societal addiction, in this case, oil. A major merger between two of the world’s largest oil companies reveals ethical dilemmas for the lawyer charged with making the deal (Jeffrey Wright), and major global implications beyond the obvious; a CIA operative (George Clooney) discovers the truth about his work, and the people he works for; a young oil broker (Matt Damon) encounters personal tragedy, then partners with an idealistic Gulf prince (Alexander Siddig) attempting to build a new economy for his people, only to find he’s opposed by powers far beyond his control. Meanwhile, disenfranchised Pakistani youths are lured into terrorism by a radical Islamic cleric. And that’s just the start. As in Traffic, in one way or another all of the characters’ fates are tied to each other, whether they realize it or not, though the connections are sometimes tenuous. While Syriana is basically a good film with timely resonance, it can’t quite seem to measure up to Gaghan’s ambitious vision and it very nearly collapses under the weight of its many storylines. Fortunately they are resolved skillfully enough to keep the film from going under in the end. To some viewers, Syriana will seem like an unfocused and over-loaded film that goes, all at once, everywhere and nowhere. Others will find it to be an important work earnestly exploring major issues. In either case, it’s a film that deserves to be taken seriously, and it’s likely to be one that will be talked about for a long time to come. --Dan Vancini

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Asks serious questions, but not for the faint of heart
SYRIANA, starring George Clooney, is a film loosely based on the book SEE NO EVIL by former CIA operative Richard Baer, who had ground experience in various countries of the middle east.

However, this movie throws a bigger net over the lead character's adventures and misadventures. The center of the plot, the fight between the Sheik's two sons to inherit his kingdom, is clearly set in Saudi Arabia, but the movie was filmed in Dubai, UAE. The conspiracy -- if you want to call it that ... Read More

Rating:

- Confusing but Enlightening
Syriana is deliberately confusing.

You have to stick with it or you will be lost.

The characters are not one-dimensional: all represent shadings of good and bad, and all can be corrupted by the system of Oil at Any Price.

The only fully decent character--the reformist Sheik--is killed by the CIA, for that very decency. (He wants to help his people, rather than the oil companies.)

The Matt Damon character grows in moral maturity before your very eyes. ... Read More

Rating:

- Like Going to the Dentist
What happened to the days when watching a movie was an escapist experience? This movie makes you look at the clock more than the subtitles (which you have to have on, in order to follow the droll, elephant trodding they call a script)!

I hope the negatives are lost for the sake of posterity.

Clooney sucks also...as usual.

Jack

Rating:

- Please stop making shaky movies!
Is there a tripod shortage in this world? Why is everbody and his brother making hand held movies that shake so much that it makes my dizzy? Also, why do people go for these disjointed movies? Does it make people feel smart that they can understand the story? This movie reminded my of Babel. Both movies sucked.

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- Some history
I won't rehash the points already made here. I just want to make the following points:

- Wahhabist fundamentalism (the ideology followed by Al Quida) was created around 1750, long, long before there were any U.S. oil companies.

- The Muslim Brotherhood was created in the 1920s and also pre-dates oil exploitation in Saudi Arabia. The core of the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology is cultural, and anti-western, not economic. The founder of the brotherhood rejected almost all western norms. ... Read More

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