syriana sweep the critic upon release and everything seem to be rave about it . i suppose it one of those film that be intensely intelligent . so intelligent that i think you need to be well verse in the oil industry and a politically brilliant mind . i do not consider myself unintelligent and i have be study politics since my early teen and i enjoy an intelligent film but for the most part unless it a documentary film be mean to be primarily entertain as well a have a message . syriana try to be strictly intelligent and it do turn some people away . i would even go so far a to say that those who rave about it and insist it a positive be lie because they think they look well . this film be the most confusing and senseless and mindless dribble i have see in awhile . especially consider the critical acclaim and the oscar nod and and the cast . screenplay writer stephen gaghan have disappoint me yet again . his horribly write havoc precede this film and i think he just try way too hard . i can not believe he be offer the opportunity to write the da vinci code screenplay . on top of that gaghan direct the film which make it an absolute mess . i have no idea who anyone be and why thing be happen and who be who and what be what . it be a disaster . because i do not really know who anyone be i can only mention the actor and what i thought of their performance because despite the horrendously complicate script the actor do alright . george clooney play c. i. a. field agent and assassin i think . bob barnes . clooney have never be a favorite of mine but lately he manage to churn out some decent performance and this seem to be a pretty good performance on his part . barnes be a complex character with a sordid history and if i know what be go on with him i would have really enjoy his character . matt damon play bryan woodman and he be rather bland and always look like a deer in the headlight which i can understand his confusion after read this script and then try to perform it . amanda peet play his wife and she do well in the few scene she be give . christopher plummer make a cameo appearance a someone do something . i like plummer and love see him show up even if he doesn not get top billing anymore . the cast be intense if only the story make sense . i would like to exact quote the description of plot on imdb . a missile disappear in iran and but the cia have other problem represent the heir to an emirate give an oil contract to china and cut out a u company that promptly fire it immigrant worker and merges with a small firm that have land a kazakhstani oil contract . the department of justice suspect bribery and and the oil company law firm find a scapegoat . the cia also need one when it plot to kill the emir apparent fails . agent bob barnes and the fall guy and sort out the double cross . an american economist parlay the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the cia want dead . the jobless pakistani join a fundamentalist group . all road start and end in the oil field . what . say who now . syriana might be the think man movie but it bore me to tear and no matter how hard i try to stay with it i eventually surrender and turn it off after an hour and a half and you couldn not have bribe me enough to get me to finish it . i suppose if you want to form an opinion than by all mean watch it but i promise you someone look for entertainment or an enjoyable film will be asleep in the first half hour . negative .