Should Be Seen

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2005)

This is a very good movie, maybe not a great movie, but should be seen by everyone (especially kids who have probably never heard of Joe McCarthy...or Edward R. Murrow) to show what our country's civil liberties are all about. The characters were heroes but not supermen. Some of them were in the film so briefly that I'm not sure you really knew what their purpose was other than to be part of the ensemble. Strathairn is excellent, as always, but here he gets the spotlight. The black and white makes it seem more authentic, being set in the days of black and white TV, the singer/musician scenes weren't really necessary and perhaps were a distraction, but all in all, an entertaining civics and history lesson.