A Lost Opportunity

Rating: 5/10 (3 September 2007)

Despite this being a beautifully made piece of work, I must agree with the poster who felt a sense of anticlimax.
McCarthy was brought down by over-reaching himself and tackling the U.S.Army. This downward spiral was already underway when this film started so McCarthy was an almost spent force by the time Murrow attacked him.
This situation deprives the film of any suspense or sense of real danger for the protagonists.
The Hollenbeck character commits suicide (according to the script) merely because he was getting bad press from the rightwing O'Brian!
And what had the subplot of the married couple losing their jobs got to do with the rest of the plot? Curious!
McCarthy and his fellow travellers were indeed monsters who destroyed many lives but this film only depicts the monster in his death throes.
A lost opportunity.