Review of Damascus Cover (2017) by Joe P — 28 Jul 2018

This is an excellent intrigue and suspense, international espionage film set in Damascus, Syria, pitting the Israeli intelligence against the Assad regime in the period of the fall of the berlin wall world.

The film is great; go see it. I saw it on-demand on my cable provider.

Jonathan rhys-Meyers is incredible - truly! Academy Award nominee caliber. Olivia Thirlby is good as the innocent/intrigue/antagonist/romantic interest. Hurt and Prochnow round out the senior class.

The most amazing thing about this film is how it demonstrates how out of touch from reality the "critics" are. The audience ratings are all but one unanimously 5 star, but the critics are only 20%???

And of particular highlight to this critic/audience incongruity is the Film Threat critic's complaint that the film had "missed opportunities"... "in the shadow of the incredible humanitarian crisis".OMG! Where does one begin to abhor this type of review?

In rebuttal:

1) This is a period piece based on a period piece book.

2) It is not relevant, at all, to have activism about today's geo-political events be a critical point of the quality of a film about the past whose dramatization of the past is already quite realistic.

Remind me (again!) to disregard the Tomatometer.when I am looking for a good movie to watch.