Good CIA based thriller. Well acted and directed. The camera work was excellent and the action was fast and furious. I liked it very much and would recommend it to any one who likes action spy type movies.

I just attended the advance press screening of this movie-adaptation of journalist/author David Ignatius' novel of the same name - superbly screen-written by Academy Award-winning William Monahan (Kingdom of Heaven and The Departed). This well-edited 128-minute spy/political thriller by director Ridley Scott was engaging - although, it was basically a run-of-the-mill Hollywood formula action-audience-geared production - car chase, explosions, guns/bullets/gore. Production values are slick - top-notch. The hard-to-swallow story/plot was contrived - far-fetched. The (ineffective) CIA was portrayed as possessing superior technology - that surprisingly did not translate to better results in reality. Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong and Golshifteh Farahani turned in good performances despite their characters' lack of depth/development. The unsatisfying ending was disappointingly anti-climactic. Verdict: A 'So-so' movie - but GO for the thrill/suspense/action.

a suspeneful movie with a lot of twists and turns and no communication between allies a little hard to follow but a very good movie

People will consider this either a confusing action movie or an underdeveloped spy movie. I was hoping for more of an espionage thriller and the movie had plot potential but needed to have at least another hour of non-action scenes to develop what was going on. Events in this movie flipped through about a dozen cities and some of the characters were recruited, used, and killed so quickly that there was barely time to develop them. The action scenes were generally enjoyable although DiCaprio goes pretty rambo for an intelligence collector. I agree that the girlfriend plot line is way too underdeveloped to support the impact on events it eventually has. I'll see this again when it comes out to rent but it didn't meet the (admittedly lofty) expectations I had for the cast and director.

Great action packed movie! A must see.....