He's also committed to wiping al Qaeda off the map. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Roger Ferris, an idealistic Mideast CIA operative constantly undermined by his chummy Langley-based boss Ed, played by Russell Crowe with 20 or so extra pounds.Įd doesn't intentionally screw up Ferris' mission. The politics are snuck in under the cliffhangers. politic so deeply into the narrative that the characters don't need to make big speeches. Film critic David Edelstein has a review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN: "Body of Lies" is a so-so thriller, but it's fascinating as the first American war-on-terror movie to weave its anti-U.S. DiCaprio plays a Mideast CIA agent on the ground, and Crowe plays his boss back at Langley. In Ridley Scott's new thriller, "Body of Lies," Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe operate in the shadowy world of spies and deceit in the age of terrorism.
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