Title: A Convoluted Disconnected Hard-to-follow Mess of a Film
Product review: Syriana was directed by Gaghan, the screenwriter for Traffic. Though not a fan of that film at least you had Soderbergh's direction and could follow the plot lines. Here we have so many vignettes that (in spite of the tagline) are disconnected, you quickly lose interest. There are no human characters to care about here. There are torture scenes, terrorism scenes, sophisticated sounding lawsuit dialogue you can't make head or tail of. George Clooney just finished a very good film, "Goodnight and Good Luck", and though this film gives him more onscreen time than others, it's still not enough to make us care about his character, a CIA pawn. Matt Damon you care about even less in his role as oil liaison whose wife is only there to fill out the background.Syriana utilizes a certain style of filmmaking, which some may like: shaky camerawork, convoluted dialogue, and fuzzy plotline. I prefer human drama where you care about the characters.
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