BY ROGER MOORE • ORLANDO SENTINEL • October 10, 2008 "Body of Lies" is a riddle wrapped in an enigma served with a side of mystery meat. It's watchable, and it has some entertaining action beats, kind of a "Syriana" as scripted by Tom Clancy or "The Kingdom" with a little less "C.S.I." -- heavy on the tech, snappy in the dialogue. But the showy dialogue -- and a scenery-chewing turn by Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead -- forces Ridley Scott's latest foray into the morass of the Middle East to straddle that line between "not bad" and "not all that, either." DiCaprio is Roger Ferris, an Arabic-speaking CIA field agent who is at home in Iraq or Turkey, the United Arab Emirates or Amman, Jordan. He's chasing this phantom terrorist called Al-Saleem. He's constantly on the phone with his portly, desk-jockey boss, the D.C.-based field...
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