A 2008 AMERICAN SPY MOVIE: BODY OF LIES

Hello my dear followers!

This week I'll be telling you guys about a pretty recent American spy movie named "Body of Lies". The movie stars Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio and it is directed by Ridley Scott, the director of "Gladiator", "American Gangster" and "Kingdom of Heaven".

Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a successful CIA operative who is usually on duty in dangerous areas and who takes orders from a high level CIA boss named Ed Hoffmann (Russell Crowe). Ferris's new mission is to track down a terrorist leader named Al Salim who plans to bomb American and European cities continually to take revenge from Americans for what they've done to Muslims. To overwhelm this terrorist, Ferris has to cooperate with the Jordanian Intelligence Agency. As Ferris approaches his target, he starts to find himself in a game of deception where trusting the others is a huge mistake.

The movie was adapted from a 2007 novel of the same name written by David Ignatius. The movie's IMDB rating is 7.5 out of 10.

In conclusion, if you like action movies which are about contemporary issues, try this one, you might like it!

Here is the trailer of the movie:

A HILARIOUS 2008 MOVIE: BURN AFTER READING

Hi again everybody!

We had a 1 week break, that's why I couldn't post anything last week but we're going on from where we stopped. The movie that I'm going to talk about this week is a 2008 crime comedy named "Burn After Reading" which made me laugh a lot and which has an incredible cast including John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt. The film was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen Brothers, the directors of Academy Award winning "No Country For Old Men".

The movie starts with the sack of an analyst named Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) from CIA due to his drinking problem. After his being fired, he decides to write a memoir about his job in CIA. His wife Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton) ,who wants to divorce Osbourne, copies his husband's personal work onto an optical disc at her divorce lawyer's office but the lawyer's receptionist forgets the disc in a workout gym. Then, an employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) finds the disc, assuming it contains some highly qualified information. He tells about the disc to his fellow employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and they decide to use the disc to blackmail Osbourne Cox. Things get even more complicated when a womanizing treasury agent, Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) who has an affair with Osborne's wife, gets involved in the story.

The film's budget was $37 millions and it grossed $130.4 millions totally. The movie's IMDB rating is 7.5 out of 10.

My personal note: Brad Pitt plays the stupid very well in this movie.

In conclusion, if you're interested in comedy movies combined with drama and crime, I say you had better watch this, you'll love it!

Here is the trailer of the movie:

A 2000 BRITISH CRIME MOVIE: SNATCH

Hello again my dear readers!!

On the contrary to previous weeks, this week, I'll be talking about a relatively older movie. This week's film is a 2000 English crime movie written and directed by Guy Ritchie (Madonna's ex-husband). Its name is "Snatch" and has a great cast including Jason Statham, Benicio Del Toro and Brad Pitt.

The movie contains two different plots which are connected to one another after some point. The first plot focuses on a fist-sized diamond which is stolen by Frankie Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) in Belgium and then brought to London. Though Four Fingers brings the diamond to a group of Jewish money launderers, different illegal figures of London claim the diamond for themselves.

The second plot revolves around the relationship between an unlicensed boxing promoter named Turkish (Jason Statham) and a Londoner crime boss, Brick Top (Alan Ford), who is known for feeding those who fall out of his favour to his prized pigs. One day, Brick Top's boxer Gorgeous George dies in a dispute with a gypsy man named Mickey (Brad Pitt) over a caravan. Then, Brick Top accuses Turkish about this incident and Turkish finds himself in a big amount of debt to him. As a result, to improve the situation, Turkish and his partner decide to use Mickey as the boxer.

Eventually, these two plots intertwine and become one humorous and active story full of action. I won't give any other spoilers.

"Snatch", being the third movie of Guy Ritchie, received some criticism since the story was almost identical as Ritchie's second movie, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". However, the movie was very successful at the box office, having won about $50 million totally in US and UK.

Apart from these, the movie resembles Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, inasmuch as both movies deal with underworld criminals, valuable items and boxers.

In conclusion, if you like crime movies with original scripts and famous actors, I would definitely recommend this movie!!

Here is the trailer: