First off, Syriana is easily one of the top five films to come out this year, perhaps in the past 3 years -- why? Because it is designed to make us examine the shit-ass politics and activity that Americans (and the Western/Modern world in general) need to re-examine, as in what the fuck are we doing to control to world's oil supply, and why are we doing anything to tackle the problem of the coming age -- renewable energy.
As a film, Syriana is complex, complicated, marvelous, startling, engaging, interesting, curiousity invoking, provacative, and entertaining (it better be that or the audiences THAT NEED TO SEE THIS movie, just won't come).
But the movie is coming under attack from the likes of Bill O'Reilly on his sham of show, claiming that George Clooney's two December films are flops. I think if the audience isn't going to see those films, it's because the audience that is under the age of 30 is damn dumb when it comes to world affairs and the history of the US before 1980... I mean, I has hanging out with this fool who just graduated from UCLA with a history degree and we were watching part of Oliver Stone's JFK, and this fool was lost as the story began to unfold, he kept asking questions about things that should have been obvious, should have been part of the study course for our youth. However, that wasn't the case... for this fool.
A movie like SYRIANA isn't about to cause public outrage, unless people are truly feeling guility about something. And maybe 'cause of the demand for cheap-as-fuck oil is making people feel like they shouldn't be chastised by some "rich-ass liberal" like Clooney (I happen to agree with his politics, though).
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