Syriana

SYRIANA (2005) - Sept. 6, 2006
Meh. This movie was well made but I felt oddly disconnected from it. It probably didn't help that it featured so many characters that I felt like I didn't really get a chance to get to know any of them. It also would have been nice if the movie had spent slightly longer chunks of time with each character; the movie kept zipping from subplot to subplot. I guess the problem was that they didn't feel like characters as much as devices to set the many many wheels of the plot in motion. It wasn't so bad though; it was well made and well acted. But did I really need a two hour movie to tell me that big oil companies are bad? **1/2