Dicaprio and Crowe in BODY OF LIES, now available on DVD & Blu-ray

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"The action is fierce and nonstop."
-Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Ridley Scott's BODY OF LIES has now arrived on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Home Video. The thriller stars Russell Crowe and Leonardo Dicaprio. Regular Widescreen and Full-screen editions are available on DVD (no extras - SRP $28.98 each).

In addition, a two-disc DVD ($34.99) and two-disc Blu-ray ($35.99) Special Edition with added bonus features are available, each with a digital copy (2nd disc).

Prepare for the action with an exciting spy thriller from acclaimed director Ridley Scott, as Body of Lies follows CIA operatives in their mission to combat terrorism in the volatile Middle East.

When CIA operative Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) uncovers the presence of a potential terrorist leader operating out of Jordan, he enlists the aid of CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe). However Ferris soon learns of a web of deceit that reaches far and wide, forcing him to question everything and everyone with whom he had placed his trust.

The Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray include:
• Audio Commentary with director Ridley Scott, screenwriter William Monahan, and author David Ignatius
• Actionable Intelligence: Deconstructing Body of Lies documentary (Sequences from the film will be explored with on set footage and unit photography, along with original interviews featuring cast and crew – each cell will cover a specific theme from the film and how this manifested on screen)
-Master of the Craft: Ridley Scott
-Safe Haven: Morocco
-Author Provocateur: David Ignatius
• Deleted scenes
• Digital Copy of the film (2nd disc)

The Blu-ray edition is BD-Live Enabled, and in addition to the above content, also includes this feature:
• Interactive Debriefing (Viewers can program interviews with Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott to be viewed by topic, participant or both. A 'play all' button will generate a virtual documentary on all topics)
-Ridley Scott: Story
-Leonardo DiCaprio: Story
-Russell Crowe: Story
-Ridley Scott: Collaboration
-Leonardo DiCaprio: Collaboration
-Russell Crowe: Collaboration
-Ridley Scott: Intelligence
-Leonardo DiCaprio: Intelligence
-Russell Crowe: Intelligence
• Digital Copy of the film (2nd disc)

BODY OF LIES - Explore the film further:

Blu-ray Special Edition Review by John J. Puccio »
EXCERPT: "Body of Lies" comes across better than a lot of the post 9/11 espionage films that Hollywood made in the ensuing years, films like "Lions for Lambs," "Rendition," and "Redacted," yet it still doesn't come to life and grip the viewer the way it should. There is surely enough action, but maybe the problem lies with the film being too long and too detailed for its subject matter. The thing is, for all its seeming complexity, "Body of Lies" is actually a fairly matter-of-fact spy story; yet the filmmakers stretch it out to 128 minutes. It's only in the final half hour that matters get really tense, and that's after an hour-and-a-half of what is essentially all exposition.

Clearly, director Ridley Scott and author David Ignatius wanted their movie to explore the nature of trust. Can you trust your informants? Your colleagues? Your boss? Your friends? Your country? That intellectual element of trust is all well and good, but it rather falls to the wayside in favor of the movie's straight-out action most of the time. Still, even though "Body of Lies" deals with a lot of minutiae that the filmmakers might have considered excising in favor of a more focused narrative, the result is never tiresome. I enjoyed most of the film, especially in its high-def transfer.

Here's the thing: We expect more from Ridley Scott, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe than we get in "Body of Lies." Although the movie is a serious attempt to represent the subject of real-life espionage in today's Middle East as excitingly as possible while at the same time explore the nature of trust in one's government and trust in one's friends, the movie never really catches fire until the very end, and the end is a long time coming. It isn't a boring movie--no Ridley Scott movie is ever boring--it just often seems lukewarm and a lot longer than it needs to be.

Fortunately, it's saved on Blu-ray disc by the excellence of its high-definition picture and sound, which go a long way toward maintaining one's sometimes flagging interest.

[Click the link above to read the full Blu-ray review]

For DVD interest, click this review...
DVD Special Edition Review by John J. Puccio »
EXCERPT: It's hard to think that the combination of actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott wouldn't produce anything but a winning motion picture, but, in fact, the 2008 espionage thriller "Body of Lies" lost quite a bundle at the box office. Is it just a bad film, or were there other factors in play? Well, it certainly isn't a bad film. So I tend to go with the "other factors" theory, and I wonder if the viewing public hadn't just gotten fed up with espionage thrillers after a recent spate of mediocre ones in 2007 and 2008. Insofar as "Body of Lies" is concerned, it's a respectable spy film, with plenty of thought and action, that just doesn't quite make it to the top of the pile.

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"BODY OF LIES is a tautly paced, well-acted espionage thriller with the requisite explosions and action sequences... With powerful performances by Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Strong and Russell Crowe." -Claudia Puig, USA Today

Synopsis:
Trust no one. Deceive everyone.
A CIA operative attempts to uncover a major terrorist operation in Jordan, but he doesn't know which of his allies he can fully trust.

The CIA's hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency's man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky—a satellite link—watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA's Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

Leonardo DiCaprio (as Ferris) and Russell Crowe (as Hoffman) star in Body of Lies, adapted by William Monahan (The Departed) from the David Ignatius novel. Ridley Scott (American Gangster, Black Hawk Down) directs this impactful tale, orchestrating exciting action sequences and plunging viewers into a bold spy thriller for our time.

Though this thriller is the fourth collaboration between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe—following on from Gladiator, A Good Year and American Gangster—it marks the veteran director's first pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this adaptation of a novel by David Ignatius, DiCaprio plays a CIA agent who wants the help of a more experienced agent (Crowe) in his investigation of a Jordanian terrorist.

While Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) gets his hands dirty on the teeming Arab streets, his handler Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe) watches from Washington via spy satellite, cheerfully giving bull-in-a-china-shop style orders while picking up his kids from school. Innocent lives are lost, buildings blow up, and the threat of winding up beheaded on the internet is always one move away. LIES is decked out from front to back with fascinating bits of Arabic and espionage minutiae as it races along its wild mission to track down an elusive terrorist sect leader.

Crowe has fun in his portly Southern-accented INSIDER mode, while DiCaprio does his usual anguished moral suffering over the fate of individuals (To Crowe's Hoffman, it's all just part of war and nobody's innocent). As the suave head of Jordanian intelligence, Mark Strong gives a scene-stealing, cobra-like performance that clashes beautifully with Crowe's "ugly American" bullying. The beautiful Golshifteh Farahani plays the obligatory love interest, the nurse who treats Ferris's regularly occurring battle and torture wounds. When most action heroes are completely healed within minutes of every fight, it's refreshing—in a grisly sort of way—to see how Ferris's wounds bruises pile up. The solid, punchy script is by William Monahan (The Departed) from the David Ignatius novel.

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