When a situation ends poorly in Iraq (Hoffman turns his back on an informant which leads to Ferris’ discovery), Ferris is shipped to Jordan to lead an effort to infiltrate a suspected safe house for an al-Qaeda-like leader Al-Saleem (Alon Aboutboul). His cynicism grows because his handler, Ed Hoffman (Russel Crowe), who rests comfortably in his home in the States, views Ferris’ marks as an expendable resource to be used and tossed away once their information has been mined. In it, Leonardo DiCaprio becomes Ferris, the street smart and increasingly disenfranchised CIA agent trying like hell to make a real difference in the war on terror.
But aside from that, I’ll give Ridley Scott credit he deftly avoided making the same agenda driven mistakes in his latest thriller Body of Lies that recent government spy thrillers have fallen into, putting together arguably one of the best written, directed and acted films of the year. It is an excruciatingly tense scene that would have gone a lot farther without the obvious shot at the current political landscape. “Welcome to Guantanamo”, Al-Saleem says to Roger Ferris before he crushes his fingers with a hammer.
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