(I found this old review fragment on my hard drive – thought I would put it up here, for posterity.)

This film contains some of the worst actors out there – William Hurt, Alec Baldwin, De Niro, Angelina Jolie – and they fully live up to their awfulness. Matt Damon is badly miscast. Michael Gambon is good (of course) but has almost nothing to do. Tuturo is okay, but again has nothing to do. The actor who played Damon’s (grown) son was like a retarded freak from outer space. Damon and his son look the same age.

They basically tried to rip off every decent spy movie ever made and some other 60/70’s thrillers: Tinker Tailor/Smiley’s People, A Perfect Spy, The Conversation, Blow Up (and Blow Out for that matter), All the President’s Men (they ripped off the music), Marathon Man, and more probably. They completely failed to capture anything that made those films great.

The film has no guts. It’s a totally gutless portrayal of the CIA’s excesses. Why not make a movie that REALLY shows what they have done in our name and with our tax dollars over the past 50 years!? (Because no one would watch it or star in it, that’s why.)

The film is 3 hours but feels like 6. The story made no sense and was completely boring. I don’t want to waste time explaining why – just don’t bother seeing it.