And even when he's in other dramas, he's never really as good in those.īut this one gave me hope he might finally translate that easy charm of Don Draper into something on the big screen. Maybe because he's too good at it in Mad Men, he wants to do everything but that kind of role. It's like he really doesn't want you to think he is sexy or a leading man. It's very strange watching someone as handsome as Jon Hamm in so many comedies. Well recommended as an entertaining thriller. A very decent cast fills out the storyline, and you'll love the '70's and '80's fashions. Rosamund Pike is surprisingly good as his CIA minder. But once the story gets going, it is a tense thriller with a lot going on. The movie does take a while to get going Telling the sides apart does take a program and some prior knowledge of recent Middle Eastern history. A friend has been kidnapped in Lebanon, and Mason Skiles may be the only person who can get him back. Out of the blue, his old life reaches out for him. Ten years later, Skiles is an alcoholic, working as a commercial negotiator and living with his memories of Lebanon. An incident at his home leads to tragedy.
diplomat working in Beirut before it all fell apart.
But once, it was known as the Paris of the Middle East. The situation in Lebanon was and is a mess, and very few people now living can have pleasant memories of it. This movie probably didn't get the attention it deserved when it was in the theaters.
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Like the man seeking professional advancement regardless of the ethics of his behaviors, in a minute turning his friend into a drunk and the 13 year old loving boy and scholar he and his wife were sponsoring, into a terrorist, the sum of a multitude of similar selfish behaviors by others transformed beautiful Beirut into a bombed out incubator of hatred and vengeance. But since the "civil war" (1975-1990) largely instigated and funded by outsiders seeking power and control there, the city has violently divided into East Beirut (almost exclusively Christian) and West Beirut (predominantly Muslim), as well as into a number of further subdivisions. It had been one of the most religiously, culturally and economically diverse cities in the Middle East. A similitude of the consequences of that behavior is the view from above, of what once was the thriving, beautiful city of Beirut. The compulsion for professional and political and military power, anywhere, anytime throughout time, is a destructive psychopathology replicated in behaviors of characters in this movie. Are there really any good or bad nation or group, cause? Or only good or bad people, with that characterization depending on a particular moment, in any one hour, during a lifetime? Much more layered and intriguing than the Tom Cruise August 2018 Mission Impossible. Others praising this movie are overall accurate. Great movie! 42 people found this helpful The grown up Karim, portrayed by Idir Chender was also exceptional. Rosamund Pike is outstanding as the cool, unpretentious, Sandy Crowder, the multilingual, State Department employee who eventually contrives with Skiles and, with good reason. Norris’s expertly applied makeup had me guessing until I looked at the actors in this movie, and Shea Whigham as the irritated Ruzak Those officials are expertly portrayed by Dean Norris as the deceptive Gaines. Foremost seemed to be Skiles’s alcoholism, but in actuality, some government officials covertly uncared if Cal Riley returned. He was unwanted, although considered an excellent mediator.
Skiles did not receive a warm welcome in Beirut by those in charge. Yet when told his friend, Cal, has been abducted, he returned. The suspension of his friendship with the Cal Riley’s portrayed by Mark Pellegrino, and wife, Alice, portrayed by Kate Fleetwood occurred there. The cause and effect of Skiles’ life being altered occurred there. government asked Skiles to return to Beirut he refused. A decade later, he’s a tanked-up, self-employed union mediator in the States. John Hamm performed a skillful portrayal as Jason Skiles, the once consummate State Department employee in Beirut in 1972.
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