| Released | 2005 | Rating | 15 in UK |
| Director | Stephen Gaghan | Writer/s | Stephen Gaghan |
| Starring | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Mazhar Munir, Christopher Plummer, Chris Cooper, Amanda Peet, William Hurt, Mark Strong. | ||
| Source of story | Book by Robert Baer | ||
| Elevator Pitch | A multi-stranded tale involving the US oil industry, the CIA and middle eastern potentates. There is an amalgamation of two oil companies making workers redundant and radicalising them and a change of allegiance from the Americans to the Chinese, making the CIA keen to redress the balance. The strands come together in a dramatic climax. | ||
| Content | Lots of people in suits talking, meetings in darkened rooms. Some torture, some explosions. The death of one child due to electrocution. | ||
| A View | This is a complex story which takes a lot of watching, and some of it is quite difficult to follow, however as we move towards the climax it begins to make sense. Although I am a bit of a fan of conspiracy stories I did not really buy this one. It smacked of 19th century gunboat diplomacy. George Clooney won a “Best Supporting Actor” Oscar. | ||
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