Syriana

Basically, in "Syriana," writer/director Stephen Gaghan (the Oscar-winning adapter of "Traffic"), former CIA agent Bob Baer and producers George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh have made a thriller for people who read the Financial Times.

It's also a companion piece in many ways to a great movie Clooney starred in several years ago, "Three Kings."

Shot in Morocco and Dubai, "Syriana" may be an eye opener to Westerners who don’t give much thought to world events.

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Indeed, the actors are so uniformly good from the start that they all seem very real, as does the situation. This is "Fahrenheit 411," meaning full of urgent information that rings true in every scene. Liberals and conservatives all have to put gas in their cars. One look at the prices, and you know that "Syriana" is not far off base.

Clooney was there with an unidentified blonde who sat in the back during the Q&A with a black hat pulled down to hide her face. He gained 30 pounds to play a fictionalized Baer. On screen he looks and feels bloated, sporting a gray beard and effecting almost a waddle.

His character is no joke, though. He’s Jack Lemmon from "The China Syndrome," a whistle-blower who wakes up too late to realize his whole life has been a sham.

It’s Clooney’s best and most coherent work on the big screen, and should get him a Best Actor nomination and lots of rave reviews.

Look. We at the AntiCentenarian categorially refuse to give air or play to sleaze-ball, corporate -interest mass media outlets who write non-sensical, antipatriotic puff pieces to manipulative films and other media crafted by the coastal elitists. And we particularly disdain of any media outlets that blow so much hot air into George Clooney's already bloated ego- who do you think that guy's looking out for? Certainly not you. He's got cash comin' in and he doesn't care whose minds he has to erase or what cultures he has to destroy by constantly ramming his liberal socialist nonsense down our throats. A good actor? Please. He's just trying to make a fast buck by spewing vitriolic anti-American nonsense.

So we at the AntiCentenarian hereby denouce those liberal collaborator windbags over at... Fox News.