Saturday, May 06, 2006

Syriana - 22nd March 2006

Remember a few weeks ago I was talking about films which weren't about much in particular; they had disparate storylines, characters that had no relevance to one another and they just didn't seem to come together in the end? Well this was one of those films.

I think in trying to deal with too much it ended up saying nothing. With little background knowledge about Oil, (which I guessed was kind of the main theme? Was it? If so, Dallas did it so much better), and the political ramifications thereof, I couldn't really keep up with the convoluted plot. Either that, or there wasn't one.

It was just a bit boring and went on for too long (have films started getting longer or has my attention span just got a lot shorter?) The best thing about it was that it featured Dr. Bashir (of DS9 fame). And that was about it. 4.5.

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