Damascus Cover
This was actor Sir John Hurt's final theatrical released film.,Despite taking place in 1989 there are modern cars in the backgrounds of several shots.,[First Lines]
Ari Ben-Sion: [Voice over] For most of the past year I have been German businessman Hans Hoffman. My real name is Ari Ben-Sion. Lying to everyone is difficult. But my life depends on keeping the two worlds separate. If I could, I would be Hans Hoffman all the time.,Featured in Good Morning Britain: Episode dated 2 March 2018 (2018),Thistles
Written and performed by James Edward Barker
Published by Brighter Headache
Courtesy of Brighter Headache,This is a quite mediocre spy movie. I used to like this genre a lot and would have the keenest interest to see them through, but this film, well, right after about 15 minutes, I've already got bored, lost my interest and became awfully impatient to watch along. During the fifteen minutes, I've first found out that the casting job was terrible; Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who played the main role as an Israeli spy, was a terrible cast, I couldn't stand his swaggering walking and his faulty ridiculed way of speaking, trying to be a mixture of German and Israeli person. Then again, Olivia Thirlby, who played a USA Today journalist, shooting pictures of those Israeli weirdos around the Weeping Wall without any obvious reason. Then an absolutely weak and unconvincing chaos was so conveniently created and suddenly died down to offer the opportunity for her and JRM's acquaintance. What an awkward and terrible scenario that only a lousy screenplay would have crafted. Then finding and signing up lot of Middle Eastern actors with big hooked noses and demonic vicious faces to play the Syrians simply further turned me off right away.

It's such an one-dimensional and highly predictable film, extremely mediocre. The only thing that worths your time was to take a look at those exotic scenes of the Middle Eastern city and village views, which by the same token, we've already seen thousand times in other films, including those travel documentary films and magazines. I'd never recommend you to waste your precious time to watch this mediocre film.,