I might have been a little bit generous in rating this movie, but I found it a pretty good watch. It's your basic Ridley Scott movie, in that it's a thriller with political overtones with a Hollywood type storyline. Still, it was fun.
DiCaprio plays undercover agent Ferris who patrols the Middle East under the terrorists' radar while trying to root them out. Crowe plays Ed Hoffman, the suit in DC who runs the operation without having total direct knowledge of what is going on, and that pisses off Ferris. The story is a bit convoluted as a whole, with a lot of things going on, but it still manages to dumb it down a bit for the layperson.
If you like suspense/thriller/action movies, then this is for you. Be warned, if you are squemish at all, the are a couple of scenes of torture, one is particularly cringe-inducing. I liked it, but it's not for all.
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