[pissant]

All the fawning leftie reviews and the millions in advertising isn't saving this stinky leftwing propaganda from flophood.

May the gay cowboy movie meet the same fate.

[mmercier]

Clooney has one big problem with his movies: more than half the viewing public will not pay a cent to see anything he is involved in because he is a nitwit communist. A nitwit first, communist second. Lots of these hw fools are unsellable, and will end up hanging out with Jimmy Carter, validating the last of the communist dictators elections in third world pissholes.

[MNJohnnie]

Guess someone should of told cLooney that Syria doesn't have any oil.

[misterrob]

Yes, but this review looks like it was written by a conservative art fag.

[softwarecreator]

May the gay cowboy movie meet the same fate.

You got that right.  Glad to see these libbie films like "Jarhead", "Brokeback Mountain", "Syrianna", "Munich" and "Paradise Now" are not exactly setting box office records.

They keep trying to say that box office returns are bad because of DVDs, etc., yet a lot of movies (not geared toward the left) are making tons of money.

[Ditter]

I never planned to see this one but we did see The Producers as soon as we could and what a let down. We were prepared to love it, we expected to love it and it is a flop, as far as we are concerned. Nathan Lane gives his all but he is not enough to save it. Matthew Broderick is fair in his role and Uma Thurman is adequate. the song and dance numbers aren't very appealing and they go on for ever, even so I can't remember a single song.

[dennisw]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/syriana/

They love Syrianna over at Rotten Tomatoes. gets a 73% score

[MortMan]

The inexperienced director brutalized his cast, reducing the supposed undiscovered genius of Hollywood, Jeffrey Wright, to the equivalent of “The Tree” in the 5th grade play, the genuinely talented Matt Damon to a weightless sheep, and George Clooney to a confused clown.

Actually, cLooney being a confused clown isn't really acting! ;-P

[Ashamed Canadian]

Is this the movie where Matt Damon runs around screaming, "Matt Damon!!", then has his neck snapped and Clooney gets blown up by a hand grenade?.....oh no, wait.....

[BradyLS]

I saw the movie and actually enjoyed it, though you have to suspend your disbelief in the last reel to do so.

More to the point, the film is a two hour collection of "moments" (snippets of punchline dialogue and brief action) where film's various threads begin on the periphery of the plot and spiral in towards the center. But all you get are points along the thread. Nothing supports or explains the them. Basically, viewers have supply their own rationales for the jumps and breaks in the story and I think that's a lot for a paying audience to accept. And, unfortunatley, it's the usual "America is greedy, pig-headed, ditzy, and wrong", but at least the other players don't come off as really any better.

It's a bummer of a film, but flashy and even captivating, as long as you don;t take it too seriously.