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Syriana Updated: Apr 30, 2008 Genre: Thriller Duration: 2 hrs. 6 min Director: Stephen Gaghan Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt Cinema Show Times

Review: Syriana is a political thriller that opens out against the scheming and fraud of the global oil industry. The conspiracy takes place against the milieu of an oil-producing Gulf country, where juvenile, charming and revolution-minded Prince Nasir (played by Alexander Siddig) is in quest of to change age-old relationships with U.S. business interests.

As a job CIA operative (played by George Clooney) sets to unearth the worrying truth about the work for what he has dedicated his life to, an up-and-coming oil broker (played by Matt Damon) countenances an unbelievable family tragedy.

A business lawyer tolerates a moral predicament as he finesses the doubtful merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies, while across the globe, a disenfranchised Pakistani teenager (played Mazhar Munir) sprays victim to the conscripting efforts of a enigmatic cleric. In fact, it is a true political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry.

MPAA Rating: R for violence and language.

Review by Arsala Ajmal