The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
Syriana has generally received positive reviews.
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Syriana was released in 2005 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 832 reviews, giving Syriana (2005) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 67%.
With a score of 70%, Syriana is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2005, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2005 with similar scores include films like Memoirs of a Geisha, Broken Flowers and Hard Candy.
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