Syriana
George Clooney leads this 2005 suspense drama, where numerous plots and characters collide in the dark underbelly of the oil industry From Stephen Gaghan, Academy Award-winning writer of Traffic, and co-starring Oscar-winners Matt Damon, Chris Cooper and Christopher Plummer alongside Amanda Peet (Dirty John) and Golden Globe-winner Jeffrey Wright (Westworld).
2005Rating: R16, Violence & offensive language128 minsUSA, United Arab Emirates
DramaThriller
- Director:
- Stephen Gaghan ('Gold', 'Dolittle')
- Writer:
- Stephen Gaghan
- Cast:
- George ClooneyMatt DamonJeffrey WrightChris CooperAmanda PeetChristopher Plummer
Syriana / Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Syriana has a lot of big, important things to say about big, important things, and it says them with a sense of urgency.
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San Francisco Chronicle
It's hard to get passionately swept away by a movie when you're struggling continually to figure out who's doing what to whom and why.
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Seattle Times
Watch closely and listen carefully during Syriana because Stephen Gaghan's movie is that rarity: a thinking person's drama.
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Daily Telegraph
Syriana is an American movie that reaches out beyond itself. Watching it made me feel hopeful - a rare sensation in a cinema.
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Variety
A weighty and deeply intriguing look at the many-tentacled beast that is the international oil industry. Wide-ranging and restlessly probing, Stephen Gaghan's second directorial effort uses the same mosaic storytelling technique as in his Oscar-winning screenplay for "Traffic."
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The New York Times
It aims to be a great deal more than a standard geopolitical thriller and thereby succeeds in being one of the best geopolitical thrillers in a very long time.
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USA Today
A gripping and fascinating tale of political intrigue that spans three continents, its focus trained on the volatile Middle East. It's a global portrait of danger, deception and disillusionment, with no dearth of human casualties.
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Roger Ebert
"Syriana" is exciting, fascinating, absorbing, diabolical and really quite brilliant, but I'm afraid it inspires reviews that are not helpful. The more you describe it, the more you miss the point. It is not a linear progression from problem to solution. It is all problem. The audience enjoys the process, not the progress.
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