Body of Lies stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, and it's set among the terror threats and deeds of radical Muslims. But while Lies feels more authentic and nuanced than most big-budget action flicks--it points out, for example, that fighting terrorism is probably necessary, and in the same breath adds that it's an undoubtedly futile fight--at the film's core, it still doesn't do much more than use the tumultuous Middle East as a backdrop for the sort of hammy spy thriller that Tom Clancy might write on a good day. By the final third of the film--when a terrorist pulverizes a captured American's fingers with a hammer and says, "This is Guantánamo!"--the film's more or less a lost cause, though I guess it deserves some brownie points for trying. by Erik Henriksen