![]() ![]() Crowe gained a substantial amount of weight for the role, and it's completely unclear why he bothered. Though Crowe gets in a few funny jokes, and is seen caring for his kids while telling Ferris to kill people over across the ocean, Hoffman is a plot device more than an actual human. All he cares about is winning the thing.Įarly in the movie Ferris loses his driver when they're attacked while investigating an al-Qaeda safehouse in the desert his regret over the loss, along with a later flirtation with an Iranian nurse (Golshifteh Fahrani), is the only character development we get for the guy, who is amorphous and bland in the way of the old private eyes. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman. He's guided from Washington, via frequent cell phone conversations, by Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), a pudgy and sarcastic Southerner who has little use for the Middle East at all, and can't bother with questioning the purpose of the Iraq War. Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the best parts of this average-at-best movie, stars as CIA operative Roger Ferris, who spends his time all over the Middle East smoking out Al-Qaeda operatives by whatever means necessary.
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