Tough cookie

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2011)

This is heart breaking to watch. Because it is so brutal and Sean Penn is so evil here, while MJ Fox so .. MJ Fox.
And if you read about the details, the original story in the paper, the real sentences, the journalist and what he stood for all his career, all the more heart breaking.
I think DePalma got a lot of slack for this. His 2 movies that opens the 80s --> Blow out and closing it --> this one are similarly in ending, however so that one is based on a true story the other not.
This is what you get when a great technician with great material with great actors. It just clicks like clockworks. Every scene is a show stopper, every expression is intensified, every action perilous and full of scruples.