Body of Lies (2008)

Body of Lies rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7/10· 249K votes

Rotten Tomatoes54%

Metacritic57%

TMDb6.6/10· 3K votes

With 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7/10 on IMDb and 57/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Body of Lies

The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

Cast of Body of Lies

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  as Roger Ferris

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  Russell Crowe

  as Ed Hoffman

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  Golshifteh Farahani

  as Aisha

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  Mark Strong

  as Hani

• 

  Ali Suliman

  as Omar Sadiki

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  Oscar Isaac

  as Bassam

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  Simon McBurney

  as Garland

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  Lubna Azabal

  as Aisha's Sister Cala

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  Michael Stuhlbarg

  as Ferris' Attorney

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  Mehdi Nebbou

  as Nizar

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  Michael Gaston

  as Holiday

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  Alon Aboutboul

  as Al-Saleem

Body of Lies facts

Budget

$70M

Box office

$113.3M

Our take on Body of Lies

Ridley Scott's 2008 espionage thriller drops CIA operative Roger Ferris on the ground in the Middle East, hunting the mastermind behind a wave of terrorist attacks while an eye in the sky watches his every move. Thousands of miles away, handler Ed Hoffman strategizes in real time, and the widening gap between the man in danger and the man at the console becomes the film's real subject. As Ferris closes on his target, he learns that trust can be as lethal as it is necessary for survival. It suits viewers who like tense, adult spy dramas built on shifting loyalties rather than pure spectacle, and who appreciate a morally tangled procedural.