I watched Syriana last night with George Clooney and Matt Damon (and there were a few others involved as well!). Actually I watched it twice, and not because I wanted to.
The movie has had some good reviews and Clooney won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, an award I think was extremely well deserved. However the movie as a whole, despite having an admirable goal of illuminating the politics of the oil industry, was tremendously hard to follow. The story line was very non-linear, weaving together multiple threads, people and facts that were just about impossible to digest in real time. Which is why I watched it twice. After seeing the movie oince, I simply didn’t understand how it all fitted together. And as I watched it again, I realized how many important details I had missed, just because they passed by so quickly.