Syriana

The digital wall clock in the CIA monitoring room does not change for several minutes.

When the team enters the Hezbollah controlled neighborhood by car, shots from inside the car, through the windshield, show another team shooting the scene on the left side of the road.

When Bob is in the hotel elevator in Beirut with Price Nasir, the camera's lens is reflected in the elevator's mirror edge.

Benett is invited for a ride in a limo with tinted windows.

Later on, the windows are clear.

At the beginning of the movie, when the woman changes her clothes and puts pants on, she also changes from high heels to sneakers.

When she walks away, her shoes sound like high heels.

During breakfast at the Woodman household, the level of cereal in Riley's bowl changes between shots.

When Bob is being tortured, he is knocked sideways while tied to the chair.

He lands on his left side facing Jimmy.

Shots from Jimmy's point of view show Bob lying on his right side.

Near the end of the film, a sign for Dubai International Airport, in black writing on a white background, is partially visible on a walkway from the terminal to a waiting plane.

Early in the film, a news reader with a British accent says "one hundred thirty".

They should have said "one hundred and thirty.

" The "and" is usually omitted in non-British English.

After the missile hits the vehicle with the prince inside, the operator of the missile say "E.

22:44", but the clock on the wall still says 22:23.

Started this movie a week ago but still cannot finish it. Its super boring and meaningless movie.

Syriana (2005): Dir: Stephen Gaghan / Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Amanda Peet: Compelling thriller about Middle East danger and the life threatening struggle of a C.I.

This movie was extremely confusing from start to finish. I saw it in theaters, and right from the start, I was confused.

The oil empire, fusion of companies, CIA, the US Justice department, the corrupt monarchies of Middle and Near East, the conflict between the people's interests and the interests of big oil corporations, a prince that tries to put an end to the alliance between his country and a foreign power which has military bases on its soil, Hezbollah and the suicide attackers all these ingredients are admirably mixed and intertwined in this movie with much truth and realism. The syncopated cut makes its visual message very efficient by means of short sequences contrasting quickly very different atmospheres and sceneries, jumping for instance from a desert scene showing the poor immigrant oil workers to a scene of a meeting of the oil tycoons in a posh office in America or Europe or even Beirut.

In response to the viewer who says "Clooney's out of nowhere insertion in the payoff scene was the movies weakest link" I have to disagree. In Deep cover operations CIA personnel follow and ground assist the opportunistic technology (in case the drone cameras get lost in a sandstorm) so that the operator can laser designate the target vehicle for "old school" tomahawk sub-to-air or other weapons.

This is a well crafted, well produced, cerebral film. It tells the story via a number of snap shots of seemingly unrelated people.

'Syriana' is an interesting watch, that works for it's innovative & progressive story-line. Also, the performances, especially by George Clooney, leave a terrific impact.

I have been reading some of the reviews here. Those who are critical of it seem to think that the movie portrays USA too negatively and it is the ARABS who are to be blamed for the current oil crisis.

I have the same problems with that film that I had with Traffic, the idea of the different storylines just end up being too confusing and as the movie progress, you grow to like/dislike one more than the other. Personally, while the performances were good, Matt Damon's part left me completely indifferent.