Comments on: Movie Review | Body Of Lies

By: triple jordanian

triple jordanian — Sun, 09 May 2010 01:56:12 +0000

they have made us look like we still ride donkeys, it’s a problem in Hollywood is always offensive to Arabs

By: Mark Burgess

Mark Burgess — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:53:14 +0000

I lived in Amman in the late 70′s and had forgotten about the “fingernail factory”. It was funny to hear that again. This did lend some authenticity to the film, but as others have said they could have done better.

By: murad

murad — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:16:58 +0000

i say it’s on the right trace for sure

By: murad

murad — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:15:56 +0000

well salam u are arab but u’r not jordanian and if u where jordanian you whould had fath in jordan and in our system !!

By: Salam

Salam — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:11:03 +0000

It seems Jordan’s security institutions are destroying the country’s reputation and image abroad. We keep lying to ourselves and convincing ourselves that our regime is a moderate regime. 20 years ago this might have been the case when our neighbors were far more repressive and the 3rd world was dominated by ruthless dictators. this is no longer the case. so not only are we lagging in education and development in general today, we are well behind most 3rd world countries except sub Saharan Africa in freedoms. to make matters worse, we are now competing with Belarus and Burma over the title of most repressive and most corrupt regime. even our benefactors the Americans can no longer find it in their heart to cut us some slack. Hollywood is how America caricatures reality. Body of Lies is sadly how America’s cultural elite see Jordan. Sometimes I think Arab governments are far more dangerous to the Arabs than any force inside or outside the Arab world. It’s time to accept that Jordan is not on the right track.

By: مدونة أسكدنيا - صورة الأردن في فيلم Body of Lies

مدونة أسكدنيا - صورة الأردن في فيلم Body of Lies — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:08:03 +0000

[...] على كل حال, اللي حابب يقرأ تفاصيل أكتر عن الفيلم يقرأ مراجعه مدونة Black Iris of Jordan. [...]

By: Adeel

Adeel — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:16:52 +0000

Dicaprio’s Arabic was reasonable. The scene where he tried to pass himself off as an Arab (the safehouse) was ridiculous, but I’m not sure that it’s reasonable to have expected fluent Arabic.

By: Jannet

Jannet — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:09:36 +0000

i’m american and i hate this movie i think we have more important things here,but i like iranian actress (golshifte) she done well her job

By: Natalia

Natalia — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:14:31 +0000

I’m not even going to bother with “Body of Lies” – I tried watching the beginning, then got bored. You’re not the first person I know to say that it was even worse than “The Kingdom,” and “The Kingdom” felt like a total waste (aside from the “dial down the boobies” line, which is now part of my lexicon).

I still believe in the great power of Ridley Scott (if only because I can watch “Blade Runner” over and over again), but the entire premise here appears stale and predictable. It’s kind of sad how a movie with actual promise can turn out to be so “meh.”

By: neighbor

neighbor — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:02:46 +0000

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but “The Kingdom”? It was awful!

By: الحق المر

الحق المر — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:03:46 +0000

“Jordan is referenced in a pretty negative way, especially with the extensive referencing of the GID’s notorious torture tactics.”

Seriously, were GID’s notorious torture tactics a shock to you to know about?

By: Diala

Diala — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:34:06 +0000

Going into the movie, I also had higher hopes. However, all in all, the movie was interesting, I didn’t find it as disappointing, yet again, I wasn’t expecting much out of Hollywood.

and DiCaprio speaking arabic, I appreciate the effort, but seriously, eww!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:57 +0000

Gotta love the old bait-and-switch when it comes to Middle Eastern cities in movies. Hollywood just figures that no sane American visits the Arab world anyway, so it’s easy enough to film in one city and call it another. Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? They’re supposed to be in Cairo (“City of the Living”) at one point. It was Tunis. Anyone who has been to Cairo would see the difference immediately, even though the movie was set some 40 years earlier.

By: Yazan Ashqar

Yazan Ashqar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:21:51 +0000

Thanks a lot for the review, I’ve been waiting to see this film for sometimes, but still didn’t raise my hopes high…

By: jaraad

jaraad — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:35:08 +0000

I wanted to see this movie so much. On the day that I and my friends agreed to go watch the movie I had some urgent thing to do. It turned out, from what I heard from my friends, I was fortunate not to. Since, according to them watching the movie was a torture. I think rating the movie 3/5 is not that bad as I thought after all. Anyway, I found if you are not an American and you are eager to watch a movie that pleasantly presents your country better watch the Travel Channel don’t wait for a Hollywood movie to do that.
Assom, back in the early 90s in the computer science department at Yarmouk University we had a slim tall and beautiful Iranian female TA. Better believe it because all the 240 plus Jordanian male students had a crush on her or even in love with her

By: asoom

asoom — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:25:23 +0000

Throughout the movie I just kept thinking “that is sooo not Jordan, especially amman!” From the scenery to the people, it was pretty off….and I’ve never met an Iranian who was permanently settled in Jordan.

Some of my favorite movies are Dicaprio movies, this definitely wasn’t his best…and I totally didn’t buy that ending.