The new trailer for Body of Lies, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’ globe-trotting novel about terror-hunting gone awry, is online, and it terribly undersells the thing, I’m afraid. I’ve watched the trailer twice now, and it says nothing, really — either in the way of plotting, or moral complexity.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, the movie centers around an ex-journalist turned CIA
agent who starts tracking down an Al Qaeda leader who may be planning a
new attack on the United States, only to get jerked around by his Stateside case officer. It’s easy to see why The Departed
screenwriter William Monahan was brought in for the adaptation, what with all the deep-cover shenanigans and what not, but this trailer — with all its cell phone cross-chatter and vacuous doublespeak — comes across like some dusty casserole of Syriana, Spy Game and Enemy of the State, just with a filmic upgrade. Body of Lies releases October 10 via Warner Bros.