Movie/film suggestions.

I thought Syriana was an intense and well cast movie.  I don't always like George Clooney, but I did enjoy his portrayal of the CIA spook who I understand was actually intended to represent Robert Baer.  It was a movie I could watch more than once.  Matt Damon was good (as usual) in this movie.

I also liked The Kingdom with Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx, Danny Huston. . . .  I guess I may have enjoyed it because going way back I spent a couple of years as a civilian working in Saudi Arabia, so it took me back a bit . . . but even without that I think I still would have enjoyed it.

One little film I like is The American. George Clooney stars as a hitman, and though he isn't (imo) very good in the role, the movie is very interesting. I've watched it three times.

Speaking of George Clooney, I thought that The Ides Of March had a pretty quick moving and tight plot with some good acting by Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marissa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood. . . .

I don't blame Clooney for being a forgettable actor for acting, his boyish sad smile is sufficient. But I would pick Ocean's 11 and the Descendants as his best

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Up In The Air was very good. And Out of Sight with JLo was enjoyable fluff, as was Intolerable Cruelty (another Coen Bros movie) with Catherine Zeta- Jones.