Body of Lies **/5

Basic plot: The CIA's in the Middle East and Leonardo DiCaprio is their ground agent who communicates his espionage to Russell Crowe back in Washington. That's really all there is to it.

As a general guideline, I prefer not to see movies about the Middle East. I don't really care to pay 10 dollars to watch on the big screen what I see on TV. Not to say that the war stuff isn't important, because obviously it is, but I usually don't like to see it play out during my cinematic escapes. This is probably why I didn't like "Iron Man" either.

Having said that, I will see anything that brandishes Leo, for the aforementioned reasons below. And as always, he did not disappoint. I love him with a Boston accent, a South African accent, and newly, a Southern accent. It's faint, but like everything else in life he pulls it off. I didn't like the film that much because most of that military jargon flies over my head, and I get tired of translated Arabic very quickly, but Leo was superb. Russell, who I tend to like in most other projects--especially Ridley Scott projects--was OK in this, but really didn't please me as much as he usually does.

It's a very typical CIA movie. It's present day, so in the midst of the Iraq War, and it's all very dusty. That's what living in the desert will do to you though... make you dusty. The plot is cohesive, there aren't any blank spots, but at the end of it you just hope and pray that some of the torture, some of the seemingly senseless deaths are a fabrication of Hollywood and not actual things that are transpiring in countries we'd never want to travel to. As Russell Crowe puts it in the film, "There's nothing here to like." That's definitely how I feel about that global region. It's an opinion derived ignorantly, I admit, because I've never been there, yet half my ancestry resides there, but still not my first, second or fifth choice for movie genre. 

So good job Leo. Yet again, you got me to see a movie I wasn't too sure about seeing in the first place, just because of your fabulousness. 

Been keeping up with Entourage? How insanely funny was last week's episode? Loves it. 

It's Fashion Week in LA and I'm working some of the shows so... crossing fingers for famous faces to be in my eye line.