Syriana

[andyfox]

"The most sympathetic major character (IMO) is the pakistani kid"

Every American in the movie was an a-hole. Even the "heroes," Damon and Clooney. And the higher up you went, the worse.

The reaction in the theater I was in was the same as another poster described: Dead silence at the end, no applause. (As opposed to two other "liberal" political movies I saw, The Silent Gardener, and Good Night and Good Luck, where there was a lot of applause.) Seemed the audience found the unbridled pessimism of Syriana depressing.