This is one of those films that makes me hate making "Best of" lists. For everything good about the film (the acting, direction), there are major weaknesses. Like any and every Iraq/Terrorist movie, the biggest flaw is that it is all means without a true end. Winning or losing this battle doesn't mean you win the war.

All things considered, I enjoyed the movie and thought Crowe and DiCaprio were great while Andy Garcia's lookalike Mark Strong gives a breakout performance. Golshifteh Farahani gives a great performance and is beyond pretty which almost makes the hastily thrown together love story work. The film is about on par with the similarly themed Traitor (a film I liked that also got very mixed reviews). It's a film that drags but is though provoking. It's average but it hits on some points that I don't believe we've seen in films before.

I fully expect "The Express" to be a better movie but "Body of Lies" is interesting enough that I'd recommend it.